Accession number
MS M.127
Object title
Firāqnāma.
Display Date
last quarter of 15th cent.
Created
Iran, probably in Shiraz, last quarter of 15th cent.
Binding
Originally in fine, tan-morocco binding; replaced in 1981 with a full natural Irish linen binding by Deborah Evetts.
Credit line
Gift of Dame Florence Caroline Spring Rice, 1925.
Description
24 leaves (2 columns, 21 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 235 x 145 mm
Provenance
Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1859-1918); acquired by the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1925, possibly the gift of Dame Florence Caroline Spring Rice.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Iran, probably in Shiraz, in the last quarter of the 15th century.
The text on the margins (ḥāshiyya) is written diagonally and is laid out in 1 column with 16 lines.
Incipit: Bi-nām-i Khudāʼī kā bā tīra khāk bar āmekht īn jawhar-i jān-i pāk.
Decoration: illuminated title page (gold on a lapis cartouche decorated with large white scrolls and arabesques), gold headings; 1 miniature on fol. 14.
The text on the margins (ḥāshiyya) is written diagonally and is laid out in 1 column with 16 lines.
Incipit: Bi-nām-i Khudāʼī kā bā tīra khāk bar āmekht īn jawhar-i jān-i pāk.
Decoration: illuminated title page (gold on a lapis cartouche decorated with large white scrolls and arabesques), gold headings; 1 miniature on fol. 14.
Script
nastaʻlīq
Language
Persian
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