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Shāh Qāsim wa-ghayruhu min taṣānīfih.
شاه قاسم وغيره من تصانيفه.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 43
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Qāsim Anvār, ʻAlī ibn Naṣīr, 1356-1433.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic poetry.
- Arabic poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 16th century.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- illuminations (paintings)
- poems
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Earlier ownership stamps (f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by Captain Robert Mignan, who commanded the escort for the East India Company's representative in Basra, Iraq, from 1826-1828; gift of Mignan to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1829 (ms. 3932; note and stamp on front flyleaf, partial label on spine).
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 25 November 1968, lot 258, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Early ownership stamps (f. 1r).
- Physical Description:
- 258 leaves : paper ; 208 x 116 (132 x 68) mm bound to 208 x 130 mm
- Other Title:
- Poems by Kasem Persian
- Place of Publication:
- [Iran?], [between 1550 and 1599]
- Language Note:
- Persian.
- Summary:
- Collection in 4 sections of rubāʻīyāt (quatrains) and qaṣāʼid (odes). Sparse marginalia, some in the text language and some later notes in English.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from added title (f. 1r).
- Layout: Written mostly in 2 columns of 15 lines, a few pages with long lines instead; textblock borde-ruled in ink; catchwords each verso, lower left.
- Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script.
- Decoration: 3 illuminated headpieces in blue and gold with touches of red (f. 1v, 198v, 221r), with space left blank for another (f. 203v); rubrication in red, ending in the second section (f. 2r-190v) except for a single rubricated page in the fourth section (f. 231r); textblock border-ruled in multiple ink lines and a narrow gold rule and divided by narrow gold lines, with the gold largely rubbed away on many leaves.
- Binding: Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); gilt stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; red leather doublure; front cover detached.
- Origin: The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 16th century.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 43.
- OCLC:
- 770720606
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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