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DS ID:

DS4198

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 49

Title:

Anvār-i Suhaylī.

Author:

Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505 / كاشفي، حسين واعظ، 1504- يا 1505

Ḥusain Wāʿiẓ Kāšifī WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Hādī ibn Bahāʼ al-Dīn, active 1822 / هادي بن بهاء الدين،

Hādī ibn Bahāʼ al-Dīn WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 149 leaves : 276 x 172 (220 x 110) mm, bound to 278 x 173 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1831 / حسيني، عبد الرحمن،

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥusaynī WIKIDATA

Gunther, Charles Frederick, 1837-1920

Charles F. Gunther WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lacquered bindings (Binding) Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents)

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from colophon (f. 148v).
Catalog entries pasted onto last flyleaf verso: lot 513 in French, lot 375 in English.
Notes (f. 149v) and one owner's stamp, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥusaynī, 1247, (f. 2r).
Binding: Lacquered boards; outside covers depict flowers and birds on a reddish ground with a gold frame; inside covers have a central mandorla containing a bird and flowers and two pendants on the vertical axis each with a bunch of flowers depicted all on a black ground with gold floral fill, surrounded by a gold, patterened frame.
Layout: 27 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah.
Script: Written in clear nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Textblock of first opening border-ruled in gold and black with the top of the first page ruled in gold and blue as if for a headpiece, but left unilluminated (f. 1v-2r); rubrications in red.
Provenance: Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥusaynī in 1247 A.H. (1831 or 1832 CE) (f. 2r).
Provenance: Sold at an American Art Association auction, Selections from the Charles F. Gunther collection : sold by order of the Chicago Historical Society, 12 November 1925, lot 375.
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Keyword:

Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts (documents)

Manuscripts, Persian

Persian literature

Fables, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_049.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_049/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia