Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 73
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4216
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 73
- Title:
- Dīvān-i Khusraw va ʻIṣmat.
- Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325 / امير خسرو دهلوى،
ʻIṣmat Bukhārāʼī, -1436 or 1437 / عصمت بخارائى،
- Place:
- Iran?
- Language:
- Persian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii, 193, vi leaves : 235 x 135 (166 x 90) mm bound to 240 x 142 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Manuscripts, 17th century Full covers Islamic bindings (Binding) Manuscripts, Persian Manuscripts (documents) Codices (bound manuscripts) Envelope flaps (features) Stamps (Provenance) Manuscripts, Oriental Illuminations (painting) Manuscripts, 16th century - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Two owner's stamps and notes, almost entirely effaced (f. 1r). Simsar reads the upper stamp as Ismāʼīl ibn Sayyid ʻAlī 1056 A.H (1646 CE) (p. 123).
Catalog entry, number 353, pasted in (first front flyleaf verso).
Binding: Bound in leather with plain paper sides over pasteboard, with flap (Type II); spine and fore-edge flap hinge are red leather
Layout: Chiefly 13 lines in two columns; sometimes the short lines are centered; extensive marginalia.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue (f. 1v); textblock border-ruled in blue and gold; small flowers in gold with blue dots and red centers appear on the ends of short lines; stenciled designed in red and black (f. 5v-6r, 55v-56r); gold rulings between the columns and sections of poetry.
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate, first front flyleaf verso). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_073.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_073/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
