[Khamsah].
[خمسه].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203.

Contributor:

Wylie, Theodore W. J. (Theodore William John), 1818-1897, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Khamsah.

خمسه.

Language:

Persian

Subjects (All):

Persian literature--747-1500.

Persian literature.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

illuminations (paintings)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Theodore W. J. Wylie (bookplate inside back cover). Inscription: "Presented to The Rev. T. W. J. Wylie Professor of Theology in Philadelphia by J. R. Campbell Saharanpur, India, Oct. 20th 1856" (Flyleaf 1r, front of book) with further inscription: "Sháh Námah or The History of the Persian Kings by Molavi Nizámí all handsomely written by hand" (Flyleaf 2r, front of book).

Physical Description:

289 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 331 x 175 (255 x 128) mm bound to 332 x 187 mm.

Place of Publication:

[India?] , [between 1750 and 1825?]

Language Note:

Persian.

Summary:

Copy of the collection of five poems known as Panj ganj or the Khamsah by Niẓāmī.

Contents:

1. f 1v-26r: Makhzān al-asrār

2. f. 27v-87v: Haft paykar (Bahrāmʹnāmah, Haft gunbad)

3. f. 88v-166v: Iskandarʹnāmah (Sharafnāmah, Iqbālnāmah)

4. f. 167v-236v: Khusraw va Shīrīn

5. f. 237v-289v: Laylī va Majnūn.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 22 lines in four columns, border-ruled with page-opening rule.

Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red. Textblock border-ruled in green, beige, black, and red with double black rules between the columns of text; page-opening framed by a black rule; polychrome illuminated headpieces in red, pink, blue, beige and green (f. 1v, 27v, 88v, 167v, 237v).

Binding: Bound in cracked brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); thin, red leather doublure.

Origin: The copy is not dated, though it was likely copied in the mid-18th to early-19th century, probably in India.

Cited as:

UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 1952.

OCLC:

1083523300