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Munshaʼāt-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Nābī Afandī
منشئات حضرت نابى افندى.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Nabi, 1641 or 1642-1712.
- Language:
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Nabi, 1641 or 1642-1712--Correspondence.
- Turkey--History--1683-1829--Early works to 1800.
- Turkey--Politics and government--17th century--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- letters (correspondence)
- illuminations (paintings)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Aḥmad Rifʻat ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Fākhir al-Z̤amāqavī, known as Ibn Aghū (?) (owner's note and stamp, f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by Swarthmore College, given to the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 (note in pencil inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- 301 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 215 x 130 (140 x 68) mm bound to 217 x 135 mm.
- Other Title:
- Munshaʼāt-i Nābī Efendi.
- منشآت نابى افندى.
- Place of Publication:
- [Turkey?], A.H. 1124 (1712)
- Language Note:
- Persian.
- Summary:
- Copies of official correspondence written by Nābī.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from caption title (f. 1v).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: 15 long lines; border ruled.
- Script: Written in nastaʻlīq using black ink; pointed, unvocalized.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red; headings in red set off by gold rules. Illuminated headpiece in gold, purple and green on opening page (f. 1v); textblock border-ruled in gold and black, with an additional red rule on the first opening (f. 1v-2r).
- Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap on the right side as the book opens (Type II); gilded paper central mandorla onlay with gold tooled pendants and frame. Gilded paper onlay on the flap as well.
- Origin: Copied in A.H. 1124 (1712) (f. 219r), likely in Turkey.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1899.
- OCLC:
- 1083523179
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