Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Haft paykar Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Iskandarnāmah Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Khusraw va Shīrīn Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Laylī va Majnūn Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Makhzan al-asrār
Call Number:
Persian MSS +93
Image Count:
6
Abstract:
Five epic poems (Makhzan al-asrār, Khusraw va Shīrīn, Laylī va Majnūn, Haft paykar, Iskandarnāmah).
Description:
Copied in A.H. [1]193 [A.D. 1779 or 1780]., Ex libris Peerji Abdul Razaq of Delhi. Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Good nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʻunwāns in gold and colors; numerous fine miniatures in colors., and Islamic lacquer binding.
Subject (Name):
Peerji Abdul Razaq--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Persian language and literature--Poetry and Persian poetry
Collected poems. Incomplete at the beginning., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq, in red and black;unwans in gold and colors., Islamic binding, in black., Purchased from Oskar Rescher on the Henry A. Homes Fund, 1964., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, The date A.H. 1232 [A.D. 1816 or 1817] added in a much later hand. Presumably copied before A.D. 1500., and The title of the lower page edges calls this volume Kulliyat-i Jami; presumably the manuscript at one time comprised his other works.
Hawafi, Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Izz al-Din Jami, 1414-1492, creator
Published / Created:
[1458]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 30
Image Count:
2
Description:
Collected poems, selected from the first Divan., Copied in A.H. Muharram 863 [A.D. 1458] by Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Izz al-Din al-Hawafi., Ethe, H. India Office,, Fair nastaliq; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Islamic binding, gilt, with flap., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and Transferred from the Historical Medical Library at Yale.
Collected poems, selected from the first Divan., Copied on A.H. 8 Safar 901 [A.H. 1495] by Pir Husayn al-Katib., Ethe, H. India Office,, Fair nastaliq; unwan in gold and blue at the beginning of the text., Lacks prefatory matter., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Collected poems., Copied in A.H. 903 [A.D. 1497 or 8]., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Lacquer binding., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and With four colored miniatures.
Ethe, H. India Office,, Fairly old (16th century) nastaliq, in red and black;unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso; with 5 colored miniatures., Islamic binding, in brown., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and The wisdom book of Alexander the Great, in verse. Part of the Haft Awrang collection.
Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of Maktabī Shīrāzī's Laylī va Majnūn, a poem in mathnawi style tells the romantic love story of Layla and Majnun
Alternative Title:
Laylī va Majnūn.
Description:
In Persian., Title assigned by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Double columns of 10 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta'līq., Binding: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards; gold-tooled inlaid central mandorla with pendants, cornerpieces and frames; light brown leather doublures., Decoration: Volume is paginated, so Illuminated miniatures with scenes from the story are on "pp. 9, 47, 158, 174, 194, 212. Illuminated headpiece, cloudbands, floral page decorations; text frames in blue and gold., and Contemporary pagination.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Persian, and Persian poetry
Sadi., creator Tabrizi, Pir Muhammad ibn Shaykh Tahir
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 35
Image Count:
3
Description:
Copied on A.H. Shaban 931 [A.D. 1525] by Pir Muhammad ibn Shaykh Tahir Tabrizi., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq, in black, red, blue, and gold; elaborate unwans on leaf 1 verso and folio 2 recto; with miniatures., Lacquer binding., Poem., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and Text is in Persian; colophon is in Arabic.
Sadi., creator Shirazi, Pur Husayn ibn Pur Hasan al-Katib
Published / Created:
[1538]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 165
Image Count:
4
Description:
Collected poems., Copied in A.H. Zu al-Hijjah 944 [A.D.1538] by Pur Husayn ibn Pur Hasan al-Katib al-Shirazi., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq, in black, blue, and gold; unwans in gold and colors., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., Leaves 1-2, 17-18, 374-376 wanting; leaves 193-199 misbound after leaf 208, and leaves 209-214 after leaf 238., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Khaqani, Afzal al-Din Shirvani, ca. 1126-1198 or 9, creator
Published / Created:
[1547]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 25
Image Count:
2
Description:
Collected poems., Copied in A.H. 954 [A.D. 1547]., Ethe, H. India Office,, Ex libris Thomas Munro. Gift of the DeForest Bookshop, 1948., Fair nastaliq, in red and black; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
