Ẓafarnāmah. Persian

Title:

Ẓafarnāmah. Persian

Alternative title:

Tīmūrnāmah
Kitāb Tārīkh Tīmūr wa-sāʾir
Tārīkh Tīmūr wa-sāʾir

Creator:

Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, d. 1454

Contributor:

Silvestre de Sacy, A. I. (Antoine Isaac), 1758-1838

Date:

1482

Description:

Abstract: History of Tīmūr (Tamerlane).Binding note: Red leather. The covers have a gold stamped central scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, and corner pieces. The outer border consists of fillets and a large guilloche. Paper pastedown and free endpaper. Traces of a now wanting flap.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 500b).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two gold rules outlined in black, with a blue outline. Dark cream laid paper, glossy, hardly translucid. Fol. 1 consists of a later leaf pasted on the recto of the first leaf with text. Inscriptions on fol. 501a-b. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (omits the first fol.). Stained with water.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece executed in gold, blue, and colors, on fol. 2b.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Spine label (vertical; partly wanting) with title in French: "Aly Al-Yezdy Histoire de Tamerlan".Three pieces of paper with printed text on the pastedown of the upper cover, the first with a notice in French describing the manuscript under no. 320 ; the second with the name "M. Silvestre de sacy" and inscriptions in pencil ; the third bearing the following text: "Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco 70, Avenue des Champs-Elysées".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Khalīl Allāh ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Shamītī(?), Thursday 10 Jumādá al-Awwal 887 June 27, 1482 (fol. 500b, in Arabic).Incipit: مدا كثيرا مباركا لمن توتى الملك من تشاء وتنزع الملك ممن تشاء وصلوه طيبه دايمه على خاتم الانبياء وسيد الاولياء محمد واله ... مقاله اول در ذكر صادرات احوال حضرت صاحب قراني انار الله برهانه بنام خدائي كه از نامه اوستExplicit: خلايق مرفه ز احسان او زمين وزمان تحت فرمان او الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد وآله اجمعين م

Language:

Persian

Type:

Illuminated manuscripts
Headpieces (layout features)
Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Timur, 1336-1405—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

Ownership statement in the name of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as Dhahanī (dated 1112 H. 1700 or 1701) and impressions of two seals on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Extent:

i, 501, i leaves : paper ; 247 x 173 (182 x 118) mm. bound to 247 x 180 mm.

Publisher:

1482

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3715Y
Electronic Resource
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Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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