Anvār-i Suhaylī
Contributors: Iṣfahānī, Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar, active 1816, scribe; Cochran, Alexander Smith, 1874-1929, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1816
Language: per
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Persian literature; Persian Fables; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. Persian.; Fables of Bidpai. Persian.
Description: Persian adaptation of animal fables.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 6r).

Layout: 15 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords each verso, lower left.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red (f. 1v) with illuminated foliate, polychrome marginal fill with the text on cloudbands on first opening (f. 1v-2r); textblock border-ruled in gold; rubrications in red; 39 color illustrations.

Origin: Copy completed on 18 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1231 AH [18 March 1816 CE] by Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Iṣfahānī (f. 340v).

Shelfmark: X892.8 B472.

Typewritten description of the manuscript by Abraham Yohannan laid in.

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Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran.

Persian.

Lacquered boards; outside covers depict a single plant with several large flowers in orange and blue on a black field with a frame; inside covers depict plant with yellow flowers on a red field with black frame.

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