Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyam.
رباعيات عمر خيام
Description
- Language(s)
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Persian
- Published
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Iṣfahān, 1688.
- Note
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Smith note: "I think there are 767 quatrains there, a few less than the Calcutta Ms." (flyleaf 1 recto, at back of book).
Shelfmark: MS Or 344.
Origin: Copy completed on 15 Muḥarram in the year 1100 A.H. (November 1688) by Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, a resident of Iṣfahān (p. 78).
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red, green with border-rules in blue and gold and gold leaf motifs between the columns (p. [1]); the rest of the pages are border-ruled in gold and blue with red horizontal lines dividing the quatrains. Some leaves are gold speckled in the textblock area.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Layout: 20 lines in two columns; border-ruled.
Title from caption title (p. [1]).
Collection of quatrains.
Manuscript codex.
Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith, "I bought this MS at a Persian dealer in Lahore, India, in December, 1907" (signed note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso at front of book).
- Physical Description
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48 paginated leaves :
paper, illuminations ;
145 x 88 (108 x 58) mm, bound to 155 x 90 mm
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