Manuscript on paper, containing the Fasl i panjam or fifth chapter of an unidentified text
Description:
In Persian., Layout: 1 column of around 9 lines., Decoration: Rubrication., Binding: Modern blind-tooled blue leather over paper pasteboards with central mandorla., and Modern pencil foliation.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian and Persian language and literature
Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550 شاهيدي ابراهيم ده ده
Published / Created:
1500-1699.
Call Number:
Turkish MSS suppl. 257
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of Kitāb-Şāhidī by Muġlavī Şāhidī İbrāhīm Dede, a Persian-Turkish dictionary in masnavi rhyme
Alternative Title:
Ṭuḥfe-i Şāhidī and تحفه شاهيدي
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish and Persian., Title from text opening., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Double columns of 15 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Naskh., Binding: Flap binding, marbled paper over paper pasteboards, brown leather spine. Upper board covered in repoussé/chased metal depicting two peacocks standing in a vegetation., Decoration: Illuminated opening bifolium with full-page miniature of a seated man on verso and floral decoration on facing recto. Illuminated floral headpiece at head of text; illuminated text frames; rubrication., and Later manuscript annotations on front and back pastedown. Calligraphic Besmele ( بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم) (f. 1a).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Turkish, Persian language, and Turkish
Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of Maktabī Shīrāzī's Laylī va Majnūn, a poem in mathnawi style tells the romantic love story of Layla and Majnun
Alternative Title:
Laylī va Majnūn.
Description:
In Persian., Title assigned by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Double columns of 10 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta'līq., Binding: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards; gold-tooled inlaid central mandorla with pendants, cornerpieces and frames; light brown leather doublures., Decoration: Volume is paginated, so Illuminated miniatures with scenes from the story are on "pp. 9, 47, 158, 174, 194, 212. Illuminated headpiece, cloudbands, floral page decorations; text frames in blue and gold., and Contemporary pagination.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Persian, and Persian poetry
Manuscript on paper, containing a miscellany on the topic of prognostication and the occult. Contains: Ma'rifat taqwim, Knowing the calendar; Fal nameh, A treatise for fortune-telling; and Nasi Ibn Muhammad Ibn Haydar Rammal Shirazi's Work on branches of the occult
Description:
In Persian., Layout: 1 column of around 12 lines., Decoration: Rubrication., Binding: Modern black gold-tooled binding., Modern pencil foliation., Contains some tables and diagrams., and Original text block appears to have been cut and surrounded by more modern paper, perhaps to remove original marginal annotations(?). New marginal annotations are added on top of the new marginal space.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian, Persian language and literature, Calendar, Fortune-telling, and Occultism
Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʼmin, -1698, author حسىنى، محمد مؤمن، -1698 author
Published / Created:
19 Shaʻbān, 1124 H [21 September, 1712]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-3
Image Count:
240
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Part 4 of Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn "Precious gift of the faithful" (an encyclopedic work on medicine and materia medica) of Muḥammad Muʼmin al-Ḥusaynī al-Tunukābunī (d. 1698), a prominent physician in Azerbaijan, originally composed for the Ṣafavid Shāh Ṣafī II Sulaymān (reigned 1666-1694). Part 4 (Tashkhīṣ-i rābiʻ) "Tadāvā-yi sumūm" is on poisons, their effects, how to avoid them, their remedies, kinds, etc. It was copied by Mullā Muʼmin Kashmīrī for ʻAbd Allāh Bīk Kūtvāl on 19 Shaʻbān 1124 (21 September, 1712) probably in Iran
Alternative Title:
Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn. Selections 880-02 and تحفة المؤمنين. Selections 240-02/r
Description:
In Persian., Incipit: "Tashkhīṣ-i rābiʻ dar tadāvā-yi sumūm. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Mushtamil ast bar panj faṣl. Faṣl-i avval dar tadabbur-i taʼs̲īr-i sumūm va iḥtirāz-i ān, faṣl-i duvvum tadābīr-i mushtarikah-i sumūm, faṣl-i sivvum dar sumūm-i mashrūbah ...", 13 x 23 cm ; written surface: 9.6 x 21 cm, 20 lines per page., Leather binding., In good nastaʻlīq script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with some markings in red; catchwords., and Colophon: "Tammat tamām shud bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb Tuḥfat al-muʼmīn ḥasab-i al-farmūdah ... ʻAbd Allāh Bīk Kūtvāl bi-yad-i faqīr al-ḥaqīr al-ʻabd al-mudhnib Mullā Mūmin Kashmīrī al-rājī ilá raḥmat Allāh al-Bārī ... taḥrīr fī al-tārīkh nūzdahum Shaʻbān al-muʻaẓẓam sanat 24 [i.e. 1124] ..."
Manuscript, on paper, of two texts, given the titles Meezan (=mizan) and Moonshayb (=Musha'ib).
Description:
In Persian., Title devised by cataloger., Layout: 1 column of around 9 lines., Decoration: Rubrication, headings rubricated in red ink., and Binding: Modern blind-tooled blue leather over paper pasteboards with central mandorla.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian and Persian language and literature
Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078?
Published / Created:
between 1700 and 1799.
Call Number:
Persian MSS suppl. 101
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, of two texts in Arabic and Persian attributed to ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jurjānī.
Description:
In Arabic and Persian., Layout: 1 column of around 9 lines., Decoration: Rubrication., Binding: Modern blind-tooled blue leather over paper pasteboards with central mandorla., and Modern pencil foliation.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian and Persian language and literature
