Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
ديوان.
Transliterated Title
[Dīvān].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 419L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcs7526r844
Language
Persian
Date Created
1650-1899
Extent
455 leaves : paper ; 235 x 136 (187 x 86) mm bound to 235 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 1b). 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. 419
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Collection of poems by Ṣāʼib Tabrīzī.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; ii + 455 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 12-17 lines per page in two columns ; frame-ruled in gold, black and blue.
Description: MS in very good condition.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, orange, red, pink, white and black (fol. 1b).
Incipit: يا رب از دل مشرق نور هدايت كن مرا * از فروغ عشق جورشيد فيامت كن مرا
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-tooled decorative edging. Yellow paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
931

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2ff9d432-a8bb-4015-b3a3-1cd823d359ae/manifest