Shelfmark
ECOM 21
Author
Title
Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī [manuscript].
Varying form of title
Other title: The five famous masnavis of Nizami.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Tabriz : ca. 1530.
Physical description
1 v. : ill. ; 324 x 209 mm.
Note
Material: chart.
Note
Format: codex.
Note
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.
Note
Handwriting: Fine nasta'liq.
Note
Number of leaves: 322 ff.
Note
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم هست کلید در گنج حکیم.
Note
Exhibited: V & A, London, 1951. Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, 1977.
Note
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).
Citation/references note
Manuscript description based on M.S.Q. Fraser, Islamic manuscripts in the Eton College Library, 1996.
Citation/references note
B.W. Robinson, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Persian Miniature Paintings from British Collections, London, 1951 no. 36.
Citation/references note
B.W. Robinson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Paintings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1958 p. 86.
Citation/references note
R. Hillenbrand, Imperia/ Images in Persian Painting, Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, 1977 no. 183.
Citation/references note
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.
Provenance
Probably given by Major W.J. Myers.
Provenance
Booklabel of Eton College Library on the back pastedown with no. 1 written in pencil.
Binding
Modern red morocco binding (Type III) with gold concentric frames on boards; blue endpapers; label with no. 767 on the back board.
Subject
Persian poetry 747-1500.
Subject
Masnavis, Persian Iran.
Added entry--name
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 former owner.
Added entry--place
Iran Tabriz.
Language code
fa
Identifier
B51638