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DS ID:

DS4197

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 48

Title:

Ḥishmat-i Kashmīr.

Author:

ʻAbd al-Qādir Khān Ibn Vāṣil ʻAlī Khān, active 1830 / عبد القادر خان ابن واصل على خان،

ʻAbd al-Qādir Khān Ibn Vāṣil ʻAlī Khān WIKIDATA

Place:

Muḥammadʹābād, Banāras

Muhammadābād TGN

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 189 foliated leaves : 269 x 168 (175 x 85) mm bound to 271 x 172 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Codices (bound manuscripts) History Stained calf (bindings) Illuminations (painting) Manuscripts (documents)

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from end of the author's preface (f. 11v)
Binding: Mottled leather over pulpboard with gold tooled frame; black leather doublure; blue painted edges.
Layout: 13 long lines; border-ruled.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue with text on cloudbands with gold fill with one section of 4 lines written on gold background (f. 1v-2r); final opening also written on cloudbands with gold fill (f. 188v-189r). Border-ruled in gold, red, blue with a page-opening frame rule in blue. Rubrications in red
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside back cover).

Keyword:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

History

Stained calf (bindings)

Illuminations (painting)

Manuscripts (documents)

Manuscripts, Persian

Manuscripts, Oriental

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_048.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_048/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia