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Dīvān-i Shams al-Dīn Tabrīzī.

Accession number
MS M.1095
Object title
Dīvān-i Shams al-Dīn Tabrīzī.
Display Date
1895.
Created
Persia, 1895.
Binding
Tan leather; pastedowns are cream paper.
Credit line
Gift; Dame Florence Caroline Spring-Rice; 1925.
Description
255 leaves (2 columns, 19 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 295 x 180 mm
Provenance
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice (1859-1918), London; gift of Dame Florence Caroline Spring-Rice in 1925.
Notes
Ms. Persian poetry; written and illuminated in Persia and completed on July 22, 1895.
Decoration: illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1v with gold cartouche and headpiece decorated with floral and geometrical elements in gold and colors, and a drawing of a flowering plant in the margin ; rulings throughout the text are in gold, black, and blue.
Scribe: Asad-Allāh Mīrzā, who is named on fol. 258v as having completed the manuscript on Sunday, 28 Muḥarram 1313 (i.e., July 22, 1895).
Incipit: Ay mah zi ijlālat khajil ....
Text box: 193 x 90 mm.
Script
nastaʻlīq
Language
Persian
Century
Classification