Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 100
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4236
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis O 100
- Title:
- Majmūʻah-ʼi Bhagat Māl.
- Nābhādāsa, active 1585
- Scribe:
- Damāl Dās / دمال داس.
- Place:
- India?
- Language:
- Hindustani
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 127 leaves : 153 x 90 (135 x 72) mm bound to 159 x 97 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Perkins, Oliver Henry
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Poems Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts, Persian--19th century Miniatures (paintings) Manuscripts (documents) - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Binding: Bound in green half covers with marbled sides.
Layout: Several different layouts: f. 1r-7v in 16 long lines; f. 8v-21v in 16-18 lines with 6 lines in three sets of two inset on each page; f. 24v-51v in 13 long lines; f. 54r-67v, 76r-119v, and 124r-127v laid out in landscape, with the text running parallel to the gutter, generally with two lines inset at the head of the page, then 7 lines in two columns; f. 69r-75v, 8 lines in two columns...
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red. Border-ruled in red for text areas, including between columns. Six full-page illustrations in color (f. 23v, 53v, 60v, 89r, 100r, 114r) and two smaller illustrations set into the text (f. 76r).
Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
Provenance: Purchased in "Benares India, Dec 1905" (note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso).
Provenance: Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate inside front cover).
Provenance: Sold in Perkins' sale at Anderson Galleries on March 23 and 24, 1926, lot 579 (catalog cutting pasted across the back inside cover and last flyleaf verso).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_100.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_100/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
