Item Summary

Poetical account of the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب ظفرنامه تيمور / از مصنفات هاتفى.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb-i Ẓafarnāmah-i Tīmūr / az muṣannafāt-i Hātifī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 418L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5138jt301
Publisher
20 J[umādá] al-Thānī 949 [October 11, 1542]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1542
Format
Manuscript
Extent
109 leaves : paper ; 214 x 117 (160-167 x 65-72) mm bound to 212 x 120 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature and seal impression of Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī (fol. 1a) seal also after colophon (fol. 108b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 418
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
A few marginal notes. French and Persian inscriptions, several about the manuscript or its author, one dated 8 Shawwāl 1310 (upper pastedown, fol. [i]a-1a). Inscriptions after the colophon (fol. 108b). Title also on spine label.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 109 (f. 109 is later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 16 lines per page in two columns ; partially frame-ruled in black.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition, stained and worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 20 J[umādá] al-Thānī 949 by Muḥammad Taqī Khān ibn Taymūr? Khān (fol. 108b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بنام خدايى كه فكر خرد * نيارد كه تاكنه اوبى برد
Colophon: تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب فى تاريخ عشرين شهر جميد الثانى سنه تسع واربعين وتسعمايه كتبه العبد الفقير الحقير محمد تقى خان بن تمور؟ خان تم
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Red-sprinkled paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Timur 1336-1405—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
poetry
Poetry
Autographs
Stamps
Sprinkled papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
228

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ce939d8f-ee6f-43cb-9c97-2c9a1238c595/manifest