Item Summary

Collection of poems in Persian.

Descriptive Information

Title
ديوان مولانا كمال
Transliterated Title
Dīvān-i Mawlānā Kamāl.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1494Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/w9505051f
Publisher
[1572 or 1686]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1572-1684
Format
Manuscript
Extent
254 leaves : paper ; 190 x 120 (127 x 71) mm. bound to 192 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from the illuminated opening (fol. 1b).
12 lines per page, in two columns with central headpieces, written in nastaʻlīq using black ink. Gold, black and blue fillets form the outer frame; a single red fillet divides the columns. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines visible. On fol. 1b: illuminated headpiece. On fol. i(a): label with mention in Arabic "raqm 309" ; inscription in Arabic script "Sayyid ʻAlī Kitāb al-miʻrāj".
Copied in Muḥarram 980 or 1098 by Yādkār(?) ibn Muḥammad ibn Niẓām (colophon, fol. 254a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (endpaper, with inscription and labels) + 254 + i (endpaper).
Incipit: از پدهنت بوىى آمد بگلستانها کردند پر از نكهت گلها همه دامانها با رشته همه چاکى شد دوخته وين طرفه كز رشته زلف تست اين چاک گريبانها
Explicit: خال در ملک جمالش نه مکست از سر زلف كاندرين ملک چو طاوس نگارست مکس
Binding Note
Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of red leather over paper pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are similarly tooled and gold painted, with a central mandorla linked to the outer frame by an horizontal and a vertical fillet, and gold painted corner pieces. The envelope flap has a similar decoration. The doublure of the upper and lower covers has a tooled and painted decoration with a central mandorla and corner pieces in orange, green and gold. The doublure of the envelope flap has a similar decoration.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic Empire—16th century
Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—16th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
520

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/61c2fcf6-c4d5-4e5a-9006-1ba32c6e2364/manifest