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Or 13704

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Or 13704
Title:
Fath Nāma by ʿImrani
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
335 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_13704 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1675
End Date:
1724
Date Range:
1675-1724
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
ʿImrani
עמרני
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 13704

Fath Nāma by ʿImrani

Contents

Persian rendering of biblical stories.

Language(s): Persian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-335v
Title: Fath Nāma
Title: פתח נאמה

A paraphrase of biblical stories from books of Joshua, Rut and Samuel in Persian, in Hebrew characters.

Author: ʿImrani עמרני

ff. 1r-90v
Numerous inhabited and decorated panels, in colours.

Unfinished full-page illustration, in pencil. f. 90v

6 miniatures, in colours: f. 15r: Joshua and the priests are carrying the ark across the Jordan river; f. 31v: f. 31v: Seven priests blow the shofar before the walls of Jericho; f. 32r: Joshua, riding a white horse, is fighting before the walls of Jericho; f. 50v: Joshua on horseback, spear in hand, participates in the battle; f. 75r: Joshua, riding a black horse, is entering into batlle to come to the aid of the Gibeonites; f. 85r: Joshua, riding his black charger, and his followers defeat the host of the king of Mekkedah and his allies.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 335 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

335 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Severe water damage at foot and occasionally other edges.

First two leaves badly damaged; restored and bound by the BL.

Tidemarks, mould stains and large losses, all repaired and infilled.

A few usage stains.

Ink smeared while wet.

Ink occasionally fugitive in water.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hand(s)

Persian semi-cursive scripts of the 17th-18th century.

Additions:

Binding

BL in-house.

Spine: 'Fath Nama. Jud. Pers. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 13704.'

History

Origin: End of the 17th century or beginning of the 18th century ; Iran (Ishafan)?

Provenance and Acquisition

1975

Acquired by the British Library from the Sassoon Collection, at the Sotheby's sale in Zürich, November in 1975.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Vera Basch Moreen, 'A Supplementary List of Judeao-Persian Manuscripts of the British Library', The British Library Journal21 (1995),pp. 71-80.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_13704 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Sassoon, David Solomon, Ohel Dawid. Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London.Compiled by D. S. Sassoon ... With seventy-three facsimiles (London: Oxford University Press, 1932), 473-476.
    The catalogue of the Sotheby's sale prepared by Ch. Abramsky, Catalogue of Thirty-eight Highly Important Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts from the collection formed by the late David Solomon Sassoon (Zürich, 1975), lot no. 34.
    Moreen, Vera Basch, Miniature paintings in Judaeo-Persian manuscripts (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1985), no. XII, pp. 49-50.
    Moreen, Vera Basch, 'A Supplementary List of Judeao-Persian Manuscripts of the British Library', The British Library Journal21 (1995), p. 73.
    Waley, Muhammad Isa, Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts (The British Library, 1998), p. 63.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 138-140.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL