[Yūsuf va Zulaykhā,
late 15th or early 16th century?].

[یوسف و زلیخا, پایان قرن 15 یا اغاز قرن 16م؟].

Description

Main Author

Jāmī, 1414-1492.

Language(s)

Persian

Published

[1480-15--?].

Subjects

Manuscripts, Persian > Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan > Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan / Ann Arbor.
Sufi poetry, Persian > Sufi poetry, Persian / Early works to 1800.
Masnavis, Persian > Masnavis, Persian / Early works to 1800.
Persian poetry > Persian poetry / 747-1500.

Summary

Yūsuf va Zulaykhā is the fifth of seven masnavīs (long poem in rhymed couplets) that make up Jāmī's Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones), composed in 888/1483. This manuscript is missing the first folio of the dibācheh. The first complete section begins: "be-nām-i ānkeh nām-esh..."(contribution by D. Mancini-Lander).

Note

Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, binding, etc. suggests late 15th or early 16th century.
Former shelfmark: "352 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on final leaf (p.244).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in dark red leather with central scalloped mandorla of dark leather filigree over bronze shagreen onlays accented with gold outlines and rule border ; upper and lower covers stamped with scalloped, four-lobed central ornament and cornerpieces (all filled with vegetal compositions), outlined in gold and set off by gold-tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps (forming a chain) ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and cream, tailband gone, headband in tact ; overall in fair condition with some lifting and losses of leather, minor delamination, split joints, slight warping in boards, detaching at spine.
Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, curved slightly and only somewhat indistinct) and irregular chain lines only faintly visible, thin and crisp, quite well-sized and burnished ; some tears, staining, etc.
Decoration: Red rubrics ; pages are bordered in blue and gold lines (contribution by D. Mancini-Lander).
Script: Text written in black nastaʻlīq script (contribution by D. Mancini-Lander).
Layout: Written in 17 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.
Collation: IV-2 (6), 14 IV(118), II (122) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization).
Explicit: "زبانرا گوشمال خامشی ده که هست از هر چه گوئی خامشی به"
Incipit: "نه بینم پخته زین بزم و خامی که بر کف باشد ش زان با ده جامی ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.

Physical Description

122 leaves ([244] p.) : paper ; 232 x 170 (148 x 75) mm.

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