University of Pennsylvania, LJS 43

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DS ID:

DS680

Shelfmark:

LJS 43

Title:

Shāh Qāsim wa-ghayruhu min taṣānīfih.

Author:

Qāsim Anvār, ʻAlī ibn Naṣīr, 1356-1433 / قاسم انوار، على بن نصير، 1356-1433

Qasem-e Anvar WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran

Iran TGN

Date:

[between 1550 and 1599]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 258 leaves : paper ; 208 x 116 (132 x 68) mm bound to 208 x 130 mm

Former Owner(s):

Mignan, Robert, -1852

Robert Mignan WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Decoration: 3 illuminated headpieces in blue and gold with touches of red (f. 1v, 198v, 221r), with space left blank for another (f. 203v); rubrication in red, ending in the second section (f. 2r-190v) except for a single rubricated page in the fourth section (f. 231r); textblock border-ruled in multiple ink lines and a narrow gold rule and divided by narrow gold lines, with the gold largely...
Origin: The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 16th century.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Layout: Written mostly in 2 columns of 15 lines, a few pages with long lines instead; textblock borde-ruled in ink; catchwords each verso, lower left.
Binding: Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); gilt stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; red leather doublure; front cover detached.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 25 November 1968, lot 258, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by Captain Robert Mignan, who commanded the escort for the East India Company's representative in Basra, Iraq, from 1826-1828; gift of Mignan to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1829 (ms. 3932; note and stamp on front flyleaf, partial label on spine).
Earlier ownership stamps (f. 1r).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Early ownership stamps (f. 1r).
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

poems

Early works

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arabic poetry

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954043173503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3k06x19h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania