Hādhā kitāb qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ
Contributors: Kātib, Malik Muḥammad ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad, active 1574, scribe; Reinhardt, Carl, 1856-1903, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1574
Place of publication: [Iran ?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Prophets, Pre-Islamic; Early works to 1800; Iranian Illumination of books and manuscripts; Specimens; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ wa-siyar al-mulūk; Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ
Description: An illustrated translation into Persian of a collection of stories of the patriarchs and prophets from the creation to the time of Muḥammad. This collection begins by saying the translation was requested by the (fictitious) Sulṭān Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muẓaffar Khān.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from caption (f. 1v); alternate title from introduction (f. 2r).

Layout: 15 long lines.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in narrow gold, wide gold and blue; rubrications in red; illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red (f. 1v), 30 color illustrations (f. 7v, 11r, 19r, 22r, 28r, 31v, 36r, 48v, 50v, 52v, 63v, 70r, 75r, 79v, 85v, 90v, 104v, 112v, 114v, 127v, 133r, 139v, 154r, 162r, 167r, 182v, 190v, 198r, 206v, 210r), and an illuminated foliate finispiece in gold (f. 228r).

Origin: Copy completed in 982 AH by Malik Muḥammad ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad al-Kātib (228r).

Shelfmark: X892.8 Q1 Q [Folio].

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Purchased for Columbia with funds donated by J. Dyneley Prince, James Speyer and Jacob H. Schiff; accessioned 1905 (bookplate inside front cover).

Persian.

Formerly owned by Carl Reinhardt; purchased from his estate.

Brown leather over pasteboard with marbled paper pastedowns.

Milstein, Rachel, Karin Rührdanz and Barbara Schmitz. Stories of the Prophets: Illustrated Manuscripts of Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʼ. Costa Mesa, CA. : Mazda Publishers, ©1999. 1568590644

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