Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyam
Contributors: Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, active 1688, scribe; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1688
Place of publication: Iṣfahān
Language: per
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Persian poetry; Persian Quatrains; Early works to 1800; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Work titles: Rubaiyat
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Collection of quatrains.

Title from caption title (p. [1]).

Layout: 20 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red, green with border-rules in blue and gold and gold leaf motifs between the columns (p. [1]); the rest of the pages are border-ruled in gold and blue with red horizontal lines dividing the quatrains. Some leaves are gold speckled in the textblock area.

Origin: Copy completed on 15 Muḥarram in the year 1100 A.H. (November 1688) by Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, a resident of Iṣfahān (p. 78).

Shelfmark: MS Or 344.

Smith note: "I think there are 767 quatrains there, a few less than the Calcutta Ms." (flyleaf 1 recto, at back of book).

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian.

Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith, "I bought this MS at a Persian dealer in Lahore, India, in December, 1907" (signed note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso at front of book).

Brown leather over pasteboard with blind stamped central toronja and blind tooled frame; gold speckled (now green) paper pastedowns and endleaves.

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