Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 37

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6489

Shelfmark:

MS Or 37

Title:

Badāʼiʻ al-funūn

Place:

India?

India TGN

Date:

1664.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 56 foliated leaves : paper ; 236 x 140 (190 x 100) mm, bound to 245 x 145 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from introduction (f. 3r).
Layout: 14-15 long lines with alpha-numerical calculations and marginalia; catchwords on versos, lower left.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed, unvocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications in red.
Origin: Copy completed in 1074 AH. (f. 55r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 37.
Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān, dated A.H. 1231? (1816) (owner's stamp on f. 1r).

Keyword:

secondary sewing (endband techniques)

frame covers

compound endbands

manuals (instructional materials)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Handbooks and manuals

Manuscripts, Persian

Islamic countries

New York (State)--New York

Markets

Commerce

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13604127

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604127_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library