This Persian manuscript dated 1025 AH (1616) contains two works on prosody by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān Jāmī (1414-92), as well as an incomplete, anonymous work on astronomy. Jāmī was a great poet, scholar, and mystic who lived most of his life in Herat, present-day Afghanistan. The 69 leaves of the manuscript are on a variety of papers: thin, pink-colored laid paper (folios 1a-31b); cream-colored laid paper (folios 32a-35b); pink-colored laid paper (folios 36a-37b); cream-color laid paper (folios 38a-40b); light-green-colored laid paper (folios 41a-45b); tan unpolished paper (folios 46a-53b); orange-to-rose-colored unpolished paper (folios 54a-61b); and dark-yellow-colored paper (folios 62a-69b). The text is in a nastaʻliq script, but different numbers of lines are used in different parts of the manuscript: 14 lines (folios 1b-40b), 10 lines (folios 41a-45b), and 12 lines (folios 46a-69b). Certain pages have circular figures showing classical poetic metrical schemes. The binding is newer, in a flexible leather without ornamentation. World Digital Library. Two works on prosody by the poet Jāmī, 1414-1492; and an incomplete, anonymous work on astronomy.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from title page (Folio 1a). Scribe not identified. Date of acquisition by former owner on fol. 1a: 18 shahr-i Ṣafar al-khayr 1335 [14 December 1916] Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: bluish, polished laid paper with horizontal chain line and visible watermarks; some pages have Russian countermark SUTF; floral unwan in gold, blue, green, red and pink; paper water damage to foredge; minor worm damage with no loss of text; black ink with rubrication and overlining in red; no catchwords. Naskh; 18 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm. Painted floral design on folios 1b and 170a; tabular charts in red and black ink on fol. 113b-114b and 140a-141a. Folio 1a-192b. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather binding with embossed frame lines, many gatherings loose.
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1b. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-26a (14 lines); 2nd work: fol. 27b-43a. (15 lines) First work written by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī; scribe of second work not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. First work written in al-Ṭihrān [Tehran], Iran; second work written in Iran, city not identified. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink, with rubrication and some overlining in red; some pages folded over; catchwords. First work: Cursive Naskh; 14 lines in written area 16 x 9 cm.; second work: Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 16.5 x 9.5 cm. First work: Cursive Naskh; second work: Nastaʻliq. Astronomical drawings throughout in red and black. Folio 1b-26a; Folio 27b-43a. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M305. Binding: blue grain over cardboard sides, dark blue cloth spine.