Kitāb-i taṣāvīr-i shīshah garān va ghayrah va bayān-i ālāt ānhā; کتاب تصاوير شيشه‌ گران و غيره و بيان آلات آنها

Alternate Title:

Taṣāvīr-i shīshah garān va ghayrah

Contributor:

Glyn, Robert, active 1818-1825 (patron)

Name:

Ghulām Yaḥyá ibn ʻImād al-Dīn Lapkanī, active 1820

Date:

1820

Description:

Description of eleven trades and crafts practiced in Bareilly, India; illustrated with 12 pen and ink drawings of tools and with five colored illustrations of craftspeople. Commissioned by Robert Glyn who was magistrate and judge of the district of Bareilly from 1818-1823. Craftsmen and tradesmen include glass maker, crimper, gram parcher, weaver, pansāri (vendor, this includes a price list for merchandise), wire maker, gold and silver thread and lace maker, kabāb maker (with recipes for making kabābs), and goldsmith.

Language:

Persian

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), 1998.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscoll525.html; Online translation with commentary: https://repository.upenn.edu/kislakcollectionmaterials/4/

Subject:

Artisans -- India -- Bareilly (District); Artisans; Tools -- India -- Bareilly (District); Tools

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian; Manuscripts, 19th century; codices (bound manuscripts); drawings (visual works); miniatures (paintings); manuscripts (documents); recipes

Physical Description:

iii, 42, iii leaves : paper, illustrations; 209 x 152 (162 x 80) mm bound to 216 x 155 mm

Geographic Subject:

India -- Bareilly (District); Oudh (India) -- Social conditions

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from front cover.; Foliation: Some contemporary foliation in ink, upper left recto. Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto excluding blank leaves inserted before paintings and drawings (1-36); references in the record are to the modern foliation.; Layout: Chiefly 13 long lines; border-ruled.; Script: Written in nastaʻlīq with elements of shikastah in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Twelve drawings in black and red (f. 3r, 5r, 7r, 10r, 12r, 14r, 20r, 23r, 25r, 30r, 35r-35v); five color illustrations (f. 9r, 19r, 22r, 29r, 34r); textblock border ruled in red and black; rubrications in red.; Binding: Bound in half covers with marbled paper sides and red leather corners and spine.; Origin: Written on commission for Robert Glyn (f. 2r) in approximately 1820.; Persian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 525