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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4204

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 56

Title:

Shāhnāmah. / [شاهنامه]

Shahnameh

Author:

Firdawsī / فردوسي

Ferdowsi

WIKIDATA

Place:

India?

India

TGN

Language:

Persian

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 145 leaves : 380 x 240 (265 x 142) mm bound to 390 x 247 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912

Oliver Henry Perkins Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Lacquered bindings with illustrations of the celestial bodies in the form of humans in various poses, sometimes riding on or walking with animals on a greenish yellow field with three frames, black, red, and black all with gilt floral fill. The beings depicted on the outside covers are not the same on front and back. Inside covers have a painting of a plant resembling a narcissus on a...
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: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, pink, green and purple on first opening (f. 1v). 13 miniatures in bright colors (f. 11v, 19v, 33r, 41v, 47r, 58v, 69r, 79v, 91r, 104r, 110v, 122r, 134r). Textblock border-ruled in gold, red, and blue. Page-opening framed by a thin, blue rule.
Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate on first flyleaf recto, at front of book).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Keyword:

Epic poems

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Illuminations (painting)

Miniatures (paintings)

Manuscripts (documents)

Persian poetry

Epic poetry, Persian

Early works

Manuscripts, Oriental

Seventeenth century