Dīvān-i sulṭān al-ʻārifīn Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī,
[16th century?].
ديوان سلطان العارفين مولانا جلال الدين الرومي, [القرن 16م؟].
Description
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Persian
- Published
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[15--?].
- Summary
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Elegant copy of the Dīvān of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, commonly called Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīz given the poet's taking the name of his spiritual guide and mystic lover Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Tabrīzī as his takhalluṣ.
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 296
Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Executed for (bi-rasm) one Ahmet Paşa ( احمد پاشا ), likely grand vizier (possibly Kara Ahmet Paşa, Hafız Ahmet Paşa, etc.). Decoration, etc. would suggest 16th or 17th century.
Former shelfmark: "185 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; traces of numeral inscribed on tail edge.
Binding: Pasteboards covered in quite dark brown (nearly black) leather (spine and fore edge flap now in dark red leather) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns / flyleaves now in untinted European laid paper with name watermark partially visible (over yellow laid paper) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSh 9), pendants and cornerpieces with gold-painted accents and tooled border ; sewn in pale yellow and dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, damaged ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc. ; has been rebacked (spine repair in dark red brown leather) and fore edge flap has been repaired as well.
Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical and horizontal, indistinct), cloudy formation, heavily sized and burnished, glossy and crisp, medium cream in color ; much foxing.
Decoration: Illuminated frontispiece (roundel) on 'title page' (p.5) carrying patronage statement / ex libris of Ahmet Paşa ( احمد پاشا ) in white on a gold ground at center and bordered by delicate arabesque with floral motifs in gold, orange, pink, red, yellow and black on a field of lapis lazuli ; elegant illuminated headpiece at opening on p.6 consisting of rectangular piece with central cartouche (more mandorla shape) carrying title ("ديوان سلطان العارفين جلال الدين مولانا الرومى") in white on a gold ground surrounded by a rich arabesque in gold with floral accents in pink, orange, red, yellow, lavender and white on a lapis lazuli ground, surmounted by a narrower rectangle continuing the arabesque composition and itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area (and columns within) surrounded by gold frame ; keywords and headings chrysographed.
Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; compact, elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.
Layout: Written in 17 lines per page with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, V-3 (7), 2 V(27), IV (35), 3 V(65), IV (73), 15 V(223), IV (271), IV-2 (277) ; quinions and quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaf and skips two pages between pp.485-486).
Incipit: "ای طایران قدس را عشقت فزوده بالها ..."
Title from headpiece at opening on p.6.
Ms. codex.
On front flyleaf (p.1), ownership statement accompanied by oval seal impression in name of one ʻAlī, statement reads "من كتب الفقير على غفر له" ; patronage statement / ex libris in illuminated roundel on 'title page' (p.5) in name of one Ahmet Paşa ( احمد پاشا ), reads "برسم خزانة الصادق العادل الكامل المعتقد الملك المنان المجاهد في سبيل ربه المستعان آصف ملك سليمان احمد پاشا لا زال دولته الى عاد الزمان" ; also on 'title page' (p.5), effaced circular seal impression, small oval seal impression and statement in upper outer corner with trace of name "عبد الباقي الحسيني" (ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Ḥusaynī) ; fairly clean copy ; on lower pastedown "احمد اديب" with incomplete date.
- Physical Description
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277 leaves :
paper ;
228 x 157 (146 x 66) mm.
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