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IO Islamic 138
- Record Id:
- 032-002800057
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002800057
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023514119.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 138
- Title:
- Jamālī, Khamsah
- Scope & Content:
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Five masnavis composed by the poet Jamālī who may have lived at Tabriz at the beginning of the 15th century, and illustrated with six miniatures (ff. 14r, 24r, 75r, 101v, 125v, 205r). Copied at Baghdad. Colophons dated 8 Ramazan 869 (4 May 1465, f. 86r) and Muharram 870 (August/September 1465, f.132r)
Contents:
- Tuḥfat al-abrār (ff. 1v-29r);
- Mihr u nigār, composed in 805/1402-03 (ff. 29v-86r);
- Maḥzūb u maḥbūb, composed in 814/1411-12 (ff. 86v-132r) and dedicated to Ghiyās al-Dīn Bāysunghur (d. 1433);
- Haft awrang, composed in 820/1417 (ff. 132v-179r);
- Tārīkh-i Iskandarī, written in imitation of Niẓāmī’s Iskandarnāmah (ff. 179v-210r)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002800057", "parent" : "#", "text" : "IO Islamic 138: Jamālī, Khamsah" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002800057
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002800057
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 229 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IO_Islamic_138 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1465
- End Date:
- 1465
- Date Range:
- 1465
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 330 x 260 mm leaf
Script: Nastaʻliq in 4 columns, 25 lines per page
Decoration:
- Includes six miniature paintings, perhaps by two different artists, on f. 14r, 24r, 75r, 101v, 125v, 205r
- Illuminated headings on ff 1v (not original), 29v, 86v, 132v, 179v
Binding: Modern red half-morocco
Condition: Every page covered with gauze at time of rebinding. Incomplete at end with text breaking off abruptly on f. 210r
Seals: scrubbed out seal, also octagonal seal of Abū Saʻīd (f. 1r)
- Custodial History:
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Purchased by Richard Johnson 3 Jum I [1780-82] in Lucknow (f 1r)
Previously purchased by Abu Saʻīd, note dated 28? Safar? 1028 (28 February 1619)
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Richard Johnson February 1807
- Publications:
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Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. 2 vols. Oxford, 1903-37, no. 1284
B. W. Robinson, Persian Paintings in the India Office Library: A Descriptive Catalogue. London, 1976, nos. 74-79, pp. 16-23
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)