Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 67

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4213

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 67

Title:

Kullīyāt.

Author:

Saʻdī / سعدى

Saadi WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 410, i leaves : 235 x 135 (166 x 90) mm bound to 240 x 142 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Manuscripts, 17th century Filigree Full covers Islamic bindings (Binding) Manuscripts, Persian Manuscripts (documents) Codices (bound manuscripts) Envelope flaps (features) Stamps (Provenance) Manuscripts, Oriental Illuminations (painting) Miniatures (paintings) Manuscripts, 16th century Inlaying

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption titles (f. 211v, for example).
Stamp dated 1231 A.H. (1815 or 1816) (f. 169v).
Catalog entry, number 211, from 1921 Sotheby's sale pasted in (last flyleaf verso).
Binding: Bound in black leather over pasteboard (Type III) with gilt stamped central mandorla inlay with two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; gold tooled frame. Inside covers have red leather doublure with central mandorla and cornerpieces of gold filigree over blue inlay with two pendants on the vertical axis and four notches along the long sides of gold filigree over green...
Layout: Chiefly 19 lines in two columns with a third column of 12 short, angled lines along the outside, fore-edge margin; prose in 19 long lines with angled marginal line.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: First page opening decorated with gold and blue headpiece, text on cloudbands and floral marginal fill with intercolumnar rulings in blue and purple (f. 1v-2r); seven polychrome illustrations (f. 22r, 102r, 138r, 171v, 200r, 261v, 344v); illuminated full page-opening with a headpiece in gold and yellow and floral marginal fill (f. 37v-38r); illuminated full page opening in gold...
Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's in 1921, lot 211.
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, 17th century

Filigree

Full covers

Islamic bindings (Binding)

Manuscripts, Persian

Manuscripts (documents)

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Envelope flaps (features)

Stamps (Provenance)

Manuscripts, Oriental

Illuminations (painting)

Miniatures (paintings)

Manuscripts, 16th century

Inlaying

Persian poetry

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian

Persian literature

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_067.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_067/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia