Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 51
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4200
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 51
- Title:
- Shāhnāmah.
- Firdawsī / فردوسي
- Place:
- Iran?
- Language:
- Persian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 467 leaves : 360 x 237 (225 x 130) mm bound to 365 x 250 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Muḥammad Jaʻfar, active 1763 / محمد جعفر،
Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Epic poems Codices (bound manuscripts) Stamps (Provenance) Illuminations (painting) Miniatures (paintings) Manuscripts (documents) - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (f. 8v).
Binding: Dark brown shagreen over pasteboard (Type III); inlaid gold-stamped central mandorla, six pendants (4 vertical, 2 horizontal) and cornerpieces. Faint green tracery still visible connecting the four pendants on the vertical axis and the central mandorla.
Layout: After the first opening, pages generally laid out in 25 lines per page in 4 columns with gold double rules between each column; border-ruled and pages frame-ruled with a misṭarah.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first opening chiefly in gold and blue with the text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r); illuminated headpiece in gold and blue on first opening after the preface (f. 7v). 23 miniatures in bright colors (f. 10r, 25r, 33v, 60v, 90r, 98v, 117r, 130r, 154r, 165r, 182v, 222r, 244r, 258r, 275v, 292r, 317r, 356r, 366v, 395r, 437v, 447r, 466r). Textblock border-ruled in double...
Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Muḥammad Jaʻfar (note dated 1177 A.H. (1763 or 1764) on f. 1r)
Provenance: Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate on first flyleaf recto, at front of book).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_051.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_051/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
