Dīvān-i ghazalīyāt-i Harātī mawsūm bi-S̲amarāt al-ʻushshāq,
[1244, i.e. 1829].

دیوان غزلیات هراتی موسوم بثمرات العشاق [1244ه, 1829م].

Description

Language(s)

Persian

Published

[1829].

Subjects

Manuscripts, Persian > Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan > Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan / Ann Arbor.
Persian poetry.

Summary

Fine copy of the collected poems (mainly ghazalīyāt and muqaṭṭaʻāt) of one Harātī [?].

Note

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1037
Origin: As appears in colophon at close of ghazalīyāt on p.241, transcription completed Rajab 1244 [January 1829]. Close of muqaṭṭaʻāt on p.257 also dated 1244 [1828 or 9].
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 186
Binding: Dark brown (to black) leather (limp binding, without boards) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; now stab sewn in white thread, five stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and pink, good condition ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, losses of leather, minor pest damage, etc. ; repair to spine (rebacked) in brown leather.
Support: European laid paper, mainly a type (perhaps machine laid) with chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), "laid lines" in a mesh / cross-hatch pattern, and watermark of "NICCOLO BRUZZO" under scrollwork with tower and star (see p.6, 8, 12, 14, 251, etc.) ; another type with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "F. PAPINI" under arms or scrollwork (see p.2, 232, etc.) ; all transluscent, sturdy, quite well-sized and burnished.
Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated.
Script: Shikastah (shikastah-nastaʻlīq / شكسته نستعليق ) ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, sweeping descenders and elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, final nūn occasionally recurved (reversed), yāʼ often uncurved, etc.
Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.
Collation: Composition difficult to examine, originally bifolia may now be split ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.29-30).
Colophon: [ghazalīyāt] "تمت الغزليات بتاريخ شهر رجب المرجب من شهور سنه ١٢۴۴ م م م " ; [muqaṭṭaʻāt] "فى سنه ١٢۴۴ م م م"
Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.4.
Ms. codex.
UM Library inscription on opening leaf (p.1) "Spec. Coll. Lib. 690713-156 Sulaiman 1968" ; glosses and marginal corrections.

Physical Description

130 leaves : paper ; 200 x 150 (150 x 90) mm.

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