Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, X8928 Q1 Q [Folio]

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DS ID:

DS6675

Shelfmark:

X8928 Q1 Q [Folio]

Title:

Hādhā kitāb qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ

Author:

Juvayrī, Muḥammad, active 10th century / جويرى، محمد، active 10th century

Muḥammad Juvayrī WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Kātib, Malik Muḥammad ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad, active 1574 / كاتب، ملك محمد بن درويش محمد، active 1574

Malik Muḥammad ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad Kātib WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran ?

Iran TGN

Date:

1574.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii, 228, ii leaves : laid paper, illustrations, illuminations ; 310 x 203 (230 x 120) mm, bound to 320 x 210 mm

Former Owner(s):

Reinhardt, Carl, 1856-1903

Carl Reinhardt WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from caption (f. 1v); alternate title from introduction (f. 2r).
Layout: 15 long lines.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in narrow gold, wide gold and blue; rubrications in red; illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red (f. 1v), 30 color illustrations (f. 7v, 11r, 19r, 22r, 28r, 31v, 36r, 48v, 50v, 52v, 63v, 70r, 75r, 79v, 85v, 90v, 104v, 112v, 114v, 127v, 133r, 139v, 154r, 162r, 167r, 182v, 190v, 198r, 206v, 210r), and an illuminated foliate finispiece in gold (f. 228r).
Origin: Copy completed in 982 AH by Malik Muḥammad ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad al-Kātib (228r).
Shelfmark: X892.8 Q1 Q [Folio].
Formerly owned by Carl Reinhardt; purchased from his estate.

Keyword:

Specimens

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

miniatures (paintings)

Prophets, Pre-Islamic

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian

Manuscripts, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14734720

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14734720_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library