Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 452

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6710

Shelfmark:

MS Or 452

Title:

Collection of Persian poetry

Scribe:

ʻAlī ibn Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī, active 1432 / على بن حظيم ترمذى، active 1432،

ʻAlī ibn Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1432.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 180 paginated leaves : paper, illuminations ; 233 x 140 (175 x 90) mm, bound to 235 x 140 mm

Former Owner(s):

Nafīsī, Saʻīd, 1895-1966 / نفيسى، سعيد، 1895-1966،

Saeed Nafisi WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; titles of component parts from table of contents (p. 1).
Layout: 21 long lines; chiefly in two columns; no catchwords; border-ruled.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed; headings in thuluth; pointed and vocalized.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold and colors (p. 61, 199); polychrome illuminated headers with leaf and vine motifs (p. 1, 125, 157, 305); textblock border-ruled in blue and red or blue and gold; columns and sections ruled in red; rubrications in red, green, blue, gold; some poetry set off by red markers.
Origin: Copy completed in Muḥarram 836 AH (1432 CE) by ʻAlī ibn Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī (p. 240).
Shelfmark: MS Or 452.
Sold by Mīrzā ʻAlī Aṣghar Kitābfurūsh [bookseller] to Saʻīd Nafīsī in Tehran in Ābān 1314 (October 1935 CE) (note in ink, p. 200 [=0]).
Formerly owned by Saʻīd Nafīsī, number 3494 (stamp and note in ink, p. 200 [=0]).

Keyword:

blind-tooled (decoration)

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

Annotations

Early works

Stamps

Manuscripts, Persian

Persian poetry

747-1500

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15265608

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_15265608_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library