Navādir Majmūʻah-ʼi Yaʻqūbī. (DS4225) (Q19466)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis O 86, Lewis O 86, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_086.html)
- نوادر مجموعۀ ىعقويى
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| English | Navādir Majmūʻah-ʼi Yaʻqūbī. (DS4225) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis O 86, Lewis O 86, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_086.html) |
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4 December 2023
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Navādir Majmūʻah-ʼi Yaʻqūbī.
نوادر مجموعۀ ىعقويى
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Mūsāʼī, Yaʻqūb ibn Ilyās, active 18th century-19th century
موسائي، يعقوب بن الياس،
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Johnson, Allen Bayard, 1829-1907
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens
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Persian literature--Early works to 1800
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Extent: ii, 887, ii leaves : 226 x 136 (160 x 75) mm bound to 230 x 148 mm; paper
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Ms. codex.
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Title from colophon (f. 887r).
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Binding: Bound in lacquered illustrated boards with gilt-stamped red leather edges. Outside covers have red, orange, and yellow flowers on a dark green field; inside covers have gilded floral fill on a dark red background with a central gilded mandorla and four pendants on the vertical axis; polychrome flowers fill the mandorla and pendants.
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Layout: Various layouts; poetry chiefly 20 lines in two columns with ten lines at angles in each column; prose in 12 long lines.
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Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
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Decoration: The whole text is elaborately decorated with numerous illuminated panels throughout, mostly floral in polychrome and gold. A dual-page illuminated index grid opens the work (f. 1v-2r). Finely detailed dual-page illuminated openings with titles and responsibility statements in blue and gold (f. 2v-3r, 10v-11r); illuminated dedication with the text on cloudbands with polychrome...
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Provenance: Formerly owned by Allen Johnson who removed it from the Lucknow Palace Library (signed note in pen on paper dated 1858 pasted onto first flyleaf verso at back of book).
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Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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15 April 2025
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