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Yūsuf va Zulaykhā

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Title
Yūsuf va Zulaykhā
Additional title: ىوسف و زلىخا
Names
New York Public Library, Spencer Coll. Pers. ms. 64.
New York Public Library. Spencer Collection
Jāmī, 1414-1492 (Author)
Shīrāzī, ʻAbd Allāh (Scribe)
Kāmrān (Former owner)
Shahjahan, Emperor of India, approximately 1592-1666 (Former owner)
جامى،, 1414-1492 (Author)
کامران، (Former owner)
Dates / Origin
Other Date: [before 1555]
Place: [Mughal Empire],
Library locations
Spencer Collection
Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. Pers. ms. 64
Topics
1500-1799
Persian poetry
Persian poetry -- India -- 16th century
Sufi poetry, Persian
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Asia, Central -- 16th century
Persian poetry -- India -- 18th century
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- India -- 18th century
Manuscripts, Persian -- New York (State) -- New York
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Manuscripts, Persian
Genres
Headpieces (layout features)
Miniatures (Paintings)
nastaʻliq
illuminated manuscripts
Ghazals (Poetry)
Poetry
Notes
Citation/reference: Islamic Manuscripts in the New York Public Library, (ed.) Barbara Schmitz (NYPL / Oxford University Press, 1992), pages 114-115.
Statement of responsibility: Jāmī.
Content: Ms. codex
Content: Text copied before 1555, miniatures probably inserted around 1570.
Content: Physical description : dark cream, gold-sprinkled paper inserted in lighter cream margins. 143 folios, the first folio unnumberd and folio 130 omitted. 15 lines. 2 columns. Black, gold, blue, red and jade rulings, with outer rulings in blue. The frontal panel (sarlawh, fols. 1b-2a) and the 6 miniatures were later pasted into the manuscript and have larger ruled areas than the text pages. The last page (fol. 143b) contains a short colophon saying that the book was copied for the Mughal prince Kāmrān son of Bābur (d. 1555) by ʻAbd Allāh Shirāzī. Underneath the colophone band is the seal of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān (r. 1628-1657) and a librarian's note that the book entered the Royal Treasury on 10 Urdibihisht, the tenth year of the Emperor's reign.
Content: According to Schmitz, "the copyist is not a master calligrapher and it is possible that the colophon is fraudulent".
Preferred citation: NYPL. Spencer Collection Pers. ms. 64
Funding: Preservation and access were made possible by the generous support of Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos.
Language: Persian; Nastaʻlīq script.
Ownership: "Purchased in London, 1985" --- Schmitz, 114.
Statement of responsibility: جامى.
Physical Description
Extent: I, 1-129, 131-143 leaves : paper, ink , miniatures ; 218 x 120 mm (147 x 73 mm)
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
Arabic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 1555356263
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b23923123
Barcode: 33433139418614
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d05a6140-6c27-013f-b687-0242ac110003
Rights Statement
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Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library. "Yūsuf va Zulaykhā " The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/46ae0c60-5203-013f-80e3-0242ac110002

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