[Subḥat al-abrār]
Contributors: Kempner, Margaret Loeb, 1899-2001, donor; Kempner, Alan H., former owner, honoree; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Language: per
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Persian poetry; Persian literature; Persian Manuscripts
Work titles: Haft awrang
Description: Illustrated copy of most of Subḥat al-abrār from Haft awrang on colored leaves, pink, yellow, cream. The selection begins with the fifth line of section 7 and continues through the end.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Layout: 15 lines in two columns.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: illuminated headpiece and finispiece in blue with gold, green, red and white (f. 1v, 100r); textblock border-ruled in gold and blue with columns and section headings ruled in gold; rubrications in gold and blue. Eight full-page illustrations (f. 9r, 27v, 39v, 44r, 51r, 61v, 81r, 91v).

Origin: Item is undated, but probably produced in the 18th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 475.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Gift of Margaret L. Kempner in memory of Alan H. Kempner, 1986.

Persian.

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