Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 86

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DS ID:

DS4225

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 86

Title:

Navādir Majmūʻah-ʼi Yaʻqūbī.

Scribe:

Mūsāʼī, Yaʻqūb ibn Ilyās, active 18th century-19th century / موسائي، يعقوب بن الياس،

Yaʻqūb ibn Ilyās Mūsāʼī WIKIDATA

Place:

Kashmīr

Kashmir TGN

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 887, ii leaves : 226 x 136 (160 x 75) mm bound to 230 x 148 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Johnson, Allen Bayard, 1829-1907

Allen Johnson WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Manuscripts, 19th century Full covers Manuscripts, Persian Codices (bound manuscripts) Anthologies Lacquered bindings (Binding) Manuscripts, Oriental Illuminations (painting) Manuscripts (documents)

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (f. 887r).
Binding: Bound in lacquered illustrated boards with gilt-stamped red leather edges. Outside covers have red, orange, and yellow flowers on a dark green field; inside covers have gilded floral fill on a dark red background with a central gilded mandorla and four pendants on the vertical axis; polychrome flowers fill the mandorla and pendants.
Layout: Various layouts; poetry chiefly 20 lines in two columns with ten lines at angles in each column; prose in 12 long lines.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: The whole text is elaborately decorated with numerous illuminated panels throughout, mostly floral in polychrome and gold. A dual-page illuminated index grid opens the work (f. 1v-2r). Finely detailed dual-page illuminated openings with titles and responsibility statements in blue and gold (f. 2v-3r, 10v-11r); illuminated dedication with the text on cloudbands with polychrome...
Provenance: Formerly owned by Allen Johnson who removed it from the Lucknow Palace Library (signed note in pen on paper dated 1858 pasted onto first flyleaf verso at back of book).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, 19th century

Full covers

Manuscripts, Persian

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Anthologies

Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Manuscripts, Oriental

Illuminations (painting)

Manuscripts (documents)

Persian poetry

Persian literature

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_086.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_086/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia