Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 77
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4219
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 77
- Title:
- Nigāristān.
- Muʻīn Juvaynī, active 14th century / معين جوينى،
Dāmād, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad, -1631? / داماد، محمد باقر بن محمد،
- Scribe:
- Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn, active 1572 / محمد حسين بن شرف الدين،
- Place:
- Iran?
- Language:
- Persian with some short quotations in Arabic
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 337, i leaves : 235 x 151 (153 x 80) mm bound to 235 x 152 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Notes (documents) Filigree Full covers Islamic bindings (Binding) Manuscripts, Persian Manuscripts, 16th century Codices (bound manuscripts) Stamps (Provenance) Manuscripts, Oriental Illuminations (painting) Onlays (decorative components) Manuscripts (documents) Inlaying - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from introduction (f. 12r).
Title also appears on top edge.
Multiple notes on the flyleaves including: 1) Selections of poetry by Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Dāmād (front flyleaf recto); 2) A birth record composed by Shuʻayb al-Jawshaqānī of a girl named ʻIṣmat, born in 1005 A.H. (f. 337v); 3) A business transaction about the exchange of pearls (14 mithqāl and 4 nukhūd) for 44 gold coins between Ḥājjī Bājī and Nawwāb Fakhr al-Dawlah (f. 337v, upper left).
Two illegible stamps (f. 337r).
Two catalog entries pasted onto inside back cover. One in French, lot 203; the second in English, lot 377.
Binding: Bound in lighter brown leather over pasteboard with inlay central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; the pendants are gold filigree on a green background and the central mandorla and cornerpieces are gilded with blue onlays; pastedowns are blue paper; endbands in light pink and green.
Layout: 15 lines to a page with prose in long lines and poetry in two columns; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; Arabic is pointed and vocalized.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in blue and gold with floral decoration (f. 1v); first opening text on cloudbands with gold and floral in-fill with intercolumnal decoration of polychrome flowers on a dark blue ground; textblock border ruled in gold, orange, gold, black and blue; rubrications in red; gold rules around and between columns of poetry.
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_077.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_077/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
