Descriptive Information

Title

[خمسه].

Transliterated Title

[Khamsah].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 84G

Identifier

ark:/88435/bv73c888z

Publisher

Harāt, [1524]

Language

Persian

Date Created

1524

Format

Manuscript

Extent

i, 186, i leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 360 x 233 (222 x 143) mm. bound to 366 x 218 mm.

Source Acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. E. et al. Garrett collection, no. 14

Simpson, M. S. Mostly modern miniatures: classical Persian painting in the early twentieth century, in Muqarnas, XXV (2008), 359-395

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

Texts: fol. 2b-54a: [Shīrīn va Khusraw]

fol. 55b-87a: [Majnūn va Laylá]

fol. 88b-130a: [Hasht bihisht]

fol. 131b-186b: [Āʼīnah-i Iskandarī].

Miniatures (as listed by Simpson, p. 361): fol. 1b: [Shīrīn visits Farhād in the mountains]

fol. 2a: [Hunting scene]

fol. 54b: [Tavern scene]

fol. 55a: [Feast of ʻId]

fol. 87b: [Mosque scene]

fol. 88a: [Shrine scene]

fol. 130b: [King Dara and the herdsmen]

fol. 131a: [Encounter outside a palace].

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

On fol. ia: Label reading "Persian Exhibition New York 1940 GR1."

Physical description: 21 lines per page, in four columns; written in small, elegant nastaʻliq in black on heavy, cream, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Written surface gold-sprinkled and bordered by blue and gold lines; columns separated by double gold lines. Catchwords; headings in tawqīʻ in various colors. Some leaves are replacements on lighter paper. Light marginal damp staining. Last thirteen verses of Majnūn va Laylá missing, presumably painted over on fol. 87b. Otherwise in excellent condition.

Decorations: Sunburst ornament on fol. 1a enclosing medallions inscribed with the volume's contents. Well-executed illuminated ʻunwāns at the beginning of each poem, in gold and colors. Illustrated with eight full-page miniatures in the classical Persian style, executed in the early 20th century; the signature on fol. 54b of Turābī Bek Khurāsānī is likely a nom de plume.

Origin: Copy completed by ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-kātib in the middle of Rabīʻ II 930 [February 1524] in Harāt (fol. 186b).

Binding Note

Lacquered binding; full black leather with panel stamp painted gold, in geometric and floral designs. Leather doublures with central mandorla, corner pieces, and panels in the outer border in filigree on blue and green background; panel around the mandorla and panels in the inner border are gold-stamped. On the spine is a gold-stamped inscription with the name of Abū al-Muẓaffar Sulṭān Rustam Bahādur Khān (d. 1496 or 7). Likely of the same period as the ms.

Discovery Information

Subject

Headpieces (layout features)—Afghanistan—Herat—16th century

Illuminated manuscripts—Afghanistan—Herat—16th century

Poetry

Lacquered bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count

382

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8412e9d6-0d6c-4003-bbd1-2f8a31a52726/manifest

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