Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 374

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6646

Shelfmark:

MS Or 374

Title:

Bahār-i dānish

Author:

ʻInāyat Allāh, -approximately 1671 / عناية الله، -approximately 1671

Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh WIKIDATA

Place:

India?

India TGN

Date:

17--?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 451 leaves : paper ; 240 x 150 (180 x 100) mm, bound to 235 x 155 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894

Alexander Isaac Cotheal WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Layout: 13 long lines; catchwords every verso.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red, some missing.
Origin: Item is undated; probably copied in the 18th century in India.
Shelfmark: MS Or 374.
Effaced owner's statement (f. 451v); partially removed bookplate with the initials MLP [?] (inside back cover).
Formerly owned by Alexander Isaac Cotheal (stamp f. 2r, 451v, second to last flyleaf verso).

Keyword:

blind-tooled (decoration)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

envelope flaps (features)

Fiction

Tales

Persian literature

Manuscripts, Persian

1500-1796

India

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14649864

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14649864_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library