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Nuzhat al-qulūb.
نزهة القلوب.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize LJS 413
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī, active 1330-1340.
- Language:
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmology--Early works to 1800.
- Cosmology.
- Curiosities and wonders--Early works to 1900.
- Curiosities and wonders.
- Iran--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Iran.
- Genre:
- Codices.
- Annotations.
- Diagrams.
- Tables (documents)
- Manuscript maps.
- Manuscripts, Persian.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by a contemporary or near-contemporary reader in the Deccan who added marginal notes after 1615 during the reign of Mohammed Qutubshah (1611-1626); smudged ownership stamp (f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999.
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
- Physical Description:
- 252 leaves : paper, illustrations, maps ; 321 x 185 (209 x 118) mm bound to 325 x 200 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [India], [between 1575 and 1625?]
- Language Note:
- Persian.
- Summary:
- Copy of a 14th-century historical and geographical work whose title translated into English is Heart's bliss. An introduction on the author's sources (f. 3r-4v), heavenly bodies, longitude, and latitude is followed by chapters on the division of creation into minerals, plants, and animals; on man; on towns, kingdoms, and valleys in Iran; and on the wonders of the world. Frequent contemporary or near-contemporary marginal notes relate the content of the text to the reader's knowledge of the Deccan region of India.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from introduction (f. 4v).
- Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 251 + 1 (modern replacement leaf); [1-252], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
- Layout: Written in 21 long lines; text block framed in ink.
- Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script.
- Decoration: Diagrams (f. 40r, 180v) and tables in red ink; map (178v-179r) of the eastern Mediterranean and Arabian Peninsula with numerous cities marked, including Jerusalem, Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Aleppo, Mosul, Najaf, Jiddah, Aden, Ṣanʻāʼ, Samarqand, Bukhoro, and Agra; illuminated headpiece (f. 1v) and faded gold floral borders (f. 1v-2r); text block framed with narrow borders of red, green, and blue ink throughout; headings and significant words in red, blue, or green.
- Binding: Morocco, gilt-stamped medallion on upper cover; replacement lower cover.
- Origin: Written in India in the Deccan, in the late 16th or early 17th century.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 136 (LJS 413).
- Cited as:
- Oversize UPenn LJS 413.
- OCLC:
- 779487758
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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