Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 344

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6628

Shelfmark:

MS Or 344

Title:

Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyam

Author:

Omar Khayyam / عمر خيام

Omar Khayyám WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, active 1688 / محمد عبد السبحان، active 1688

Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān WIKIDATA

Place:

Iṣfahān

Isfahan TGN

Date:

1688.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 48 paginated leaves : paper, illuminations ; 145 x 88 (108 x 58) mm, bound to 155 x 90 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Collection of quatrains.
Title from caption title (p. [1]).
Layout: 20 lines in two columns; border-ruled.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red, green with border-rules in blue and gold and gold leaf motifs between the columns (p. [1]); the rest of the pages are border-ruled in gold and blue with red horizontal lines dividing the quatrains. Some leaves are gold speckled in the textblock area.
Origin: Copy completed on 15 Muḥarram in the year 1100 A.H. (November 1688) by Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, a resident of Iṣfahān (p. 78).
Shelfmark: MS Or 344.
Smith note: "I think there are 767 quatrains there, a few less than the Calcutta Ms." (flyleaf 1 recto, at back of book).
Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith, "I bought this MS at a Persian dealer in Lahore, India, in December, 1907" (signed note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso at front of book).

Keyword:

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

747-1500

Quatrains, Persian

Manuscripts, Persian

Persian poetry

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642741

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14642741_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library