ديوان مولانا كمال

Dīvān-i Mawlānā Kamāl.

Author
Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Persian
Published/​Created
[1572 or 1686]
Description
254 leaves : paper ; 190 x 120 (127 x 71) mm. bound to 192 x 130 mm.

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    Subject(s)
    Getty AAT genre
    Summary note
    Collection of poems in Persian.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from the illuminated opening (fol. 1b).
    • 12 lines per page, in two columns with central headpieces, written in nastaʻlīq using black ink. Gold, black and blue fillets form the outer frame; a single red fillet divides the columns. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines visible. On fol. 1b: illuminated headpiece. On fol. i(a): label with mention in Arabic "raqm 309" ; inscription in Arabic script "Sayyid ʻAlī Kitāb al-miʻrāj".
    • Copied in Muḥarram 980 or 1098 by Yādkār(?) ibn Muḥammad ibn Niẓām (colophon, fol. 254a).
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. i (endpaper, with inscription and labels) + 254 + i (endpaper).
    • Incipit: از پدهنت بوىى آمد بگلستانها کردند پر از نكهت گلها همه دامانها با رشته همه چاکى شد دوخته وين طرفه كز رشته زلف تست اين چاک گريبانها
    • Explicit: خال در ملک جمالش نه مکست از سر زلف كاندرين ملک چو طاوس نگارست مکس
    Binding note
    Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of red leather over paper pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are similarly tooled and gold painted, with a central mandorla linked to the outer frame by an horizontal and a vertical fillet, and gold painted corner pieces. The envelope flap has a similar decoration. The doublure of the upper and lower covers has a tooled and painted decoration with a central mandorla and corner pieces in orange, green and gold. The doublure of the envelope flap has a similar decoration.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    Other title(s)
    ديوان كمال خان
    Title on tail of text block
    • Dīvān-i Kamāl-i Khān
    OCLC
    68965526
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