Shāh Qāsim wa-ghayruhu min taṣānīfih; شاه قاسم وغيره من تصانيفه

Alternate Title:

Poems by Kasem Persian

Name:

Qāsim Anvār, ʻAlī ibn Naṣīr, 1356-1433

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1550

Description:

Collection in 4 sections of rubāʻīyāt (quatrains) and qaṣāʼid (odes). Sparse marginalia, some in the text language and some later notes in English.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Earlier ownership stamps (f. 1r).; Formerly owned by Captain Robert Mignan, who commanded the escort for the East India Company's representative in Basra, Iraq, from 1826-1828; gift of Mignan to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1829 (ms. 3932; note and stamp on front flyleaf, partial label on spine).; Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 25 November 1968, lot 258, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Early ownership stamps (f. 1r).; Mignan, Robert, -1852, former owner.; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs43.html; Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333033; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Arabic poetry; Arabic poetry -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; codices (bound manuscripts); illuminations (paintings); poems

Physical Description:

258 leaves : paper; 208 x 116 (132 x 68) mm bound to 208 x 130 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from added title (f. 1r).; Layout: Written mostly in 2 columns of 15 lines, a few pages with long lines instead; textblock borde-ruled in ink; catchwords each verso, lower left.; Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script.; Decoration: 3 illuminated headpieces in blue and gold with touches of red (f. 1v, 198v, 221r), with space left blank for another (f. 203v); rubrication in red, ending in the second section (f. 2r-190v) except for a single rubricated page in the fourth section (f. 231r); textblock border-ruled in multiple ink lines and a narrow gold rule and divided by narrow gold lines, with the gold largely rubbed away on many leaves.; Binding: Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); gilt stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; red leather doublure; front cover detached.; Origin: The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 16th century.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Persian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 43

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)