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سبحت الابرار. Subḥat al-abrār, 1529-1530 C.E.; 936 A.H.

 Item
Identifier: BV 49

Abstract

Partial copy, nearly the first half is missing. Text begins with Ḥikayat-i ān shīr-i zan-i mūṣalī; two color illustrations.

Dates

  • Issued: 1529-1530 C.E.; 936 A.H.

Extent

1 volumes

Language of Materials

Persian

Custodial History

Copy completed in 936 A.H. by Niʻmat Allāh ibn Zayn al-ʻAbdīn Rūdbārī al-mashhūr bi-Kishvarī (f. 79v).

Author

  1. Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامى،

Related Materials

A digitized version of this manuscript can be found online at: https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_049.html

Bibliography

Iranica: Modes of Transmission by Benjamin Anderson and Yael Rice, Rhys Carpenter Library, September 2005.

Physical Description

Manuscript codex. Title from introduction (f. 6r). Stamp (mostly scrubbed) (f. 79v).

Paper support

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, inner and outer frames. Pastedowns of plain paper covered in pen tests and notations.

79, i leaves : 204 x 125 (134 x 73) mm bound to 207 x 125 mm

Written in 12 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Rubrications in red. Texblock and between columns border ruled in gold. Two illustrations (f. 19v, 44r).

Contemporary foliation in Arabic-Hindu numerals in red and black ink, top, left recto, begins after the prefaces; catchwords each verso, lower left. Continuous modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; references in the record are to the modern foliation.

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