Yūsuf va Zulaykhā. Mihr va Mushtarī; یوسف و زلیخا. مهر و مشترى

Contributor:

Shirāzī, Qāsim ʻAlī (scribe)

Name:

Jāmī, 1414-1492; ʻAṣṣār Tabrīzī, Muḥammad, -1382 or 1383

Timespan:

747-1500

Date:

1500

Description:

Copy of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā with Mihr va Mushtarī in the margins and 18 miniatures. This copy has gold-sprinkled leaves set into larger, speckled leaves of brown and blue. The text of the two poems and eight fully framed miniatures appear on the inset pages. Outside edges of ten of the inset pages have been painted over with miniatures that extend to the edges of the framing page. These marginal miniatures were likely added later and likely cover some lines of Mihr va Mushtarī along with the border decorations.

Language:

Persian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Clarence S. Bement (bookplate inside front cover); accessioned, July 1900.; Bement, Clarence S. 1843-1923, former owner.

Subject:

Persian literature -- 747-1500

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); miniatures (paintings); Allegories; Poetry; Manuscripts, Persian; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

215 leaves : paper, illustrations; 200 x 114 (133 x 60) mm bound to 210 x 115 mm.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f. 1v-211r: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Jāmī -- 2. f. 2v-215r: Mihr va Mushtarī / Muḥammad ʻAṣṣār Tabrīzī.; Persian.; Title from title of first work in frontispiece (f. 2r) and title of second work from its colophon (f. 215r).; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto.; Layout: 10 lines in two columns with 24 marginal lines across three sides.; Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Polychrome dual-page illuminated title pages in blue, gold, red, and black (f. 1v-2r). Text is on cloudbands with gold and floral fill on page openings for beginning of poem (f. 2v-3r) and for each of the 8 fully contained miniatures (f. 9v-10r, 42v-43r, 68v-69r, 86v-87r, 113v-114r, 140v-141r, 155v-156r, 184v-185r). All inset pages are gold sprinkled with gold and blue rules around the pairs of 10 lines. Gold triangles with red, blue, purple, and yellow flowers mark the upper and lower inner corners and the middle of the outer margin for the marginal poem. Inset pages are border-ruled in brownish, gold, and orange. Ten other miniatures appear in the margins (f. 6v, 22v, 53r, 55v, 93r, 108v, 131r, 162 r, 178v, 191v) and were probably added later by another painter. Headers are in white ink on gold backgrounds with some flower motifs.; Binding: Half covers in red leather with blue marbled paper sides over pasteboard; blue marbled paper doublure. Copy has been oversewn in bundles that are not attached to the spine.; Origin: Likely written and illuminated in Shiraz in the 16th century, based on layout and style of illumination and illustration (Marianna Shreve Simpson). In 1935 Muhammad Simsar claimed to have located a verse date which he read as "10th of Shawwal of the year 878 Hijra five hours after the daybreak (March 1, 1474)." This claim is based on a confusion with and misreading of the date of composition of Mihr va Mushtarī (f. 213v) (Joshua Mugler).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1950