Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 65
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4212
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 65
- Title:
- Sharafnāmah.
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 / نظامى گنجوى،
- Scribe:
- Niẓām al-Dīn, active 1832 / نظام الدين،
- Place:
- India?
- Language:
- Persian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i, 138, i leaves : 232 x 144 (202 x 100) mm bound to 240 x 150 mm; laid paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Manuscripts, 19th century Manuscripts, Persian Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts, Oriental Illuminations (painting) Miniatures (paintings) Manuscripts (documents) - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Bound in modern cardboard in dark green cloth; plain yellow paper pastedowns.
Layout: 13 lines in two columns with 26 lines at angles along the three outer margins; border-ruled
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Headpiece in gold, blue and pink (f. 1v); each page opening has the text written on the suggestion of cloudbands with gold fill between the lines, purple and orange flowers on a gold field appear in triangles in the inner, upper and lower corners and in the center of the outer edge to divide the two sets of marginal lines, slightly wavy gold rules appear between each of the...
Provenance: Sold at the Oriental manuscripts, miniatures and works of art sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London), 18 June, 1923, lot 77.
Provenance: Purchased through P.H. Rosenbach in London 1923 (note in pencil, inside front cover).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_065.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_065/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
