Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 75
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4217
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 75
- Title:
- Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ.
- Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century / حافظ،
- Place:
- India?
- Language:
- Persian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii, 213, ii leaves : 275 x 165 (213 x 100) mm bound to 280 x 175 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Ḥayāt Allāh Khān Bahādur, active 1739 / حيات الله خان بهادر،
Macan, Turner, 1792-1836
Buck, Mitchell S. 1887-1959
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Blind tooled (decoration) Codices (bound manuscripts) Illuminations (painting) Manuscripts (documents) - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Two bookplates and a card pasted into front inside cover; a note of ownership in Persian in ink on page 1 and poems by that owner's son, ʻAbd Allāh, written onto the last leaf (p. 428).
Binding: Rebound in 1918 by H. Zucker of Philadelphia in red leather with gold tooled spine, turn-ins, border and frame with gold-tooled flowers in the corners and centered along each side between the border and the frame; Hafiz is gold-stamped on the spine; plain brown pastedowns.
Layout: 15 lines in two columns; border-ruled.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold with green, purple and blue flowers (p. 2); each page is border-ruled in gold, red, and blue with the page-opening ruled in blue; the columns are divided by double gold rules.
Provenance: Formely owned by Ḥayāt Allāh Khān Bahādur in the 20th year of Muḥammad Shāh Pādishāh's reign (=1739) (note in ink p. 1).
Provenance: Formerly owned by Turner Macan (bookplate inside front cover).
Provenance: Formerly owned by Mitchell S. Buck (bookplate inside front cover).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_075.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_075/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
