Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, X8928 B472

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DS ID:

DS6670

Shelfmark:

X8928 B472

Title:

Anvār-i Suhaylī

Author:

Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505 / كاشفي، حسين واعظ، 1504 أو 1505

Ḥusain Wāʿiẓ Kāšifī WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Iṣfahānī, Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar, active 1816 / اصفهاني، صادق بن محمد جعفر، active 1816

Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar Iṣfahānī WIKIDATA

Date:

1816.

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 340, i leaves : laid paper, illustrations, illuminations ; 205 x 135 (145 x 95) mm, bound to 210 x 140 x 40 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cochran, Alexander Smith, 1874-1929

Alexander Smith Cochran WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from introduction (f. 6r).
Layout: 15 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords each verso, lower left.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red (f. 1v) with illuminated foliate, polychrome marginal fill with the text on cloudbands on first opening (f. 1v-2r); textblock border-ruled in gold; rubrications in red; 39 color illustrations.
Origin: Copy completed on 18 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1231 AH [18 March 1816 CE] by Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Iṣfahānī (f. 340v).
Shelfmark: X892.8 B472.
Typewritten description of the manuscript by Abraham Yohannan laid in.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Lacquered bindings

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

miniatures (paintings)

Persian literature

Fables, Persian

Manuscripts, Persian

747-1500

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14734517

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14734517_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library