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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4219

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 77

Title:

Nigāristān. / نگارستان

Nigāristān

Author:

Muʻīn Juvaynī, active 14th century / معين جوينى،

Muʻīn Juvaynī WIKIDATA

Dāmād, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad, -1631? / داماد، محمد باقر بن محمد،

Mir Damad WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn, active 1572 / محمد حسين بن شرف الدين،

Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Language:

Persian with some short quotations in Arabic

Persian WIKIDATA

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

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

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

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:

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

Persian poetry

Persian literature

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:

Free Library of Philadelphia