Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 61

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DS ID:

DS4208

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 61

Title:

Pand-i ʻAṭṭār.

Author:

ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230 / عطار، فرىد الدين،

Attar of Nishapur WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Rushdī, Aḥmad / رشدى، احمد.

Aḥmad Rushdī WIKIDATA

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 41 leaves : 235 x 135 (160 x 85) mm bound to 235 x 150 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Poems Codices (bound manuscripts) Illuminations (painting) Manuscripts (documents)

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1v).
Catalog entry describing the manuscript pasted onto the inside front cover.
Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers painted with frames of gold, red, and orange with a gold tooled diaper grid central fill, somewhat effaced. Coordinated design on flap. Silver sprinkled pink paper doublure.
Layout: 11 lines in two columns. Gold rules between and around columns.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red. Dual page illuminated floriate borders of gold and red with illuminated headpiece in gold, pink, blue and red (f. 1v-2r). Illuminated finispiece in silver, gold, red, pink with floral motifs (f. 40v). Gold circular medallion, as if for a colophon or dedication (f. 41r). All pages border ruled in gold and green double rules with gold double rules between the...
Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Keyword:

Poems

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Illuminations (painting)

Manuscripts (documents)

Sufism

Manuscripts, Persian

Sufi literature, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_061.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_061/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia