Majmūʻah
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Majmūʻah
مجموعه - Alternative title:
- بياض
- Date:
- [1680-1720?].
- Description:
- Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 884Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; dated seal impression can provide only rough terminus ante quem ; likely late 17th or early 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Card with notes in pencil, "no. 16? generating figures at end | note on this made by E. Savage- Smith" -- b. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owens notes" -- c. Slip with notes in ink affixed to verso of front flyleaf "14 (16) A Persian Bayaz in prose & verse big thick volume. The list of contents enumerates about 111 names some of which items are very famous & rare. Clear nastalik, red & black ink, binding broken. No date early 18th century. This Bayaz belonged to a nawab Yakub Khan who has made an entry of his illness under the date 1131 A.H. Some of the contents are (1) Risala sihat wa mardh (2) Mathnavi Haji Muhammed Rasai (3) Poems of Ali Razai Tajalli Shirazi (4) complete Rubaiyyat Omar Khayyam (5) Sozogudaz Noi (6) Mahmud ayaz Anis Shamlu (7) Mir Walihi an Aka Beg (8) Rubaiyyat Wahib (9) Poems of Mirza Badia (10) Anji's poems (10) Rubaiyyats of Adham (11) of Yahya (12) of Wirki Kummi (13) of Sufi (14) Poems of Abu Turab"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 33 ; "No (16)" on opening added leaf p.3, etc.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in dark red leather ; sewn in heavy cream thread, two stations, many threads broken leaving loose gatherings ; in quite poor condition with significant shrinkage, cracking and losses of leather in upper and lower covers (now extremely ill-fitting), spine lining fully exposed, cloth hinges damaged, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Indian or Persian) laid paper, mainly with roughly 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct, slight curving) and occasional chain lines visible, sturdy though thin and transluscent, burnished, some leaves beige or dusky pink in color.Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; clear, careful hand in a medium line ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in distinct dots.Layout: Varies widely, though lines typically arranged on the diagonal, in 12-18 lines per page ; often divided to two or three columns to set off poetry.Collation: vi, 3, IV (8), V+1 (19), 2 II (27), 60 IV(507), IV+1 (516), 2 IV(532), III (538), IV (546), III (552), vi ; almost exclusively quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of strokes or cross in red ink, upper outer corner of right-hand leaf, lower-outer corner of left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; some leaves between sections left blank ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips two pages between pp.773-774).Incipit: "خطبه بیاض من منشآت رموزان دقایق سخندانی نصیرای همدانی بیت المعمور سپاس آلهی ازان با یه برتر است ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Careful copy of a vast majmūʻah of prose (inshāʼ) and verse, including copies of several letters (maktūb) from Shāh Jahān (r.1628-57), Shāh ʻAbbās II (r.1642–1666), etc., with detailed contents listing added at opening (pp.15-18). Opens with excerpts from the munshiʼāt of Naṣīrā-yi Hamadānī ( خواجه نصیرالدین محمد یزدگری همدانی هندی). Contributions to the cataloguing from Kathryn Babayan and Abdullah Ghouchani.
- Language:
- Persian
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Persian
Persian literature.
Letter writing, Persian 17th century.
Iran History Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736 Sources.
Mogul Empire History Sources. - Geographic region:
- Iran
India
Mogul Empire - Time period:
- 17th century
Iran: Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736 - Extent:
- 552 leaves : paper ; 280 x 185 (195 x 100) mm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print - Same as:
- https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006837458