Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 99
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4235
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 99
- Title:
- Collection of stories in Hindustani.
- Scribe:
- Purshād walad Khūb Chand / پرشاد ولد خوب چند،
- Place:
- India
- Language:
- Hindustani
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i, 43, i leaves : 228 x 175 (155 x 110) mm bound to 235 x 190 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Āghā Faṣāḥat ʻAlī / آغا فصاحت على،
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Poems Manuscripts, 19th century Manuscripts, Indic Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts, Oriental Miniatures (paintings) Manuscripts (documents) - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
"Aga Fasahut ally in Benares" note in ink (flyleaf 1 recto at front of book).
Binding: Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind-stamped and gilded onlays of a central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and three frames with inside covers also of reddish brown leather with a simpler mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces in gilt-stamped onlays.
Layout: 9 long lines; border-ruled.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in blue and red (f. 1v); rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in red and blue; 14 illustrations with captions in contour bands (f. 23r, 23v, 25r, 27r, 29r, 31r, 33r, 34r, 35r, 37v-38r, 39r, 40r, 41r)
Provenance: Formerly owned by Āghā Faṣāḥat ʻAlī and purchased from "a person whose father was the grand vizier Nawwāb Naṣīr al-Dawlah Bahādur, for the father of the Mahārājah Rājah" [incomplete] (Simsar, 175) (f. 1r).
Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's Feb. 1925, lot 165 (catalog entry pasted to front flyleaf recto and note in pencil).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_099.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_099/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
