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Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī [manuscript].
Other title: The five famous masnavis of Nizami.
Tabriz : ca. 1530.
1 v. : ill. ; 324 x 209 mm.
Material: chart.
Format: codex.
Decoration: contains 49 miniatures, of these two from the early Safavid period (ca. 1530), one from the Qajar period (1798-1834) and 45 dating to c.1600-20. Opening double page of illumination replaced in 19th century.
Handwriting: Fine nasta'liq.
Number of leaves: 322 ff.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم هست کلید در گنج حکیم.
Exhibited: V & A, London, 1951. Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, 1977.
The manuscript was remarginated in the early 19th century, and several leaves were added where others had been removed, as has the final leaf with the colophon. At the same time one miniature of Khusraw (on f. 75 verso) was added. (Quarrie 1990).
Manuscript description based on M.S.Q. Fraser, Islamic manuscripts in the Eton College Library, 1996.
B.W. Robinson, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Persian Miniature Paintings from British Collections, London, 1951 no. 36.
B.W. Robinson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Paintings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1958 p. 86.
R. Hillenbrand, Imperia/ Images in Persian Painting, Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, 1977 no. 183.
P. Quarrie, Treasures of Eton College Library: 550 years of collecting, edited by M.F. Robinson, New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1990 p. 73 no. 96.
Probably given by Major W.J. Myers.
Booklabel of Eton College Library on the back pastedown with no. 1 written in pencil.
Modern red morocco binding (Type III) with gold concentric frames on boards; blue endpapers; label with no. 767 on the back board.
Persian poetry 747-1500.
Masnavis, Persian Iran.
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 former owner.
Iran Tabriz.
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