Manuscript/Mixed Material [Khamsah] [خمسة] / Khamseh : lyric and romantic poems

Title

• [Khamsah]

Other Title

• [خمسة]
• Khamseh : lyric and romantic poems

Names

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203

Created / Published

• [16--?]

Headings

• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
• -  India

Notes

• -  Manuscript.
• -  Persian.
• -  Title supplied from container.
• -  Scribe not identified.
• -  Written in India?
• -  Paper; thin, lightly polished laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral carpet page in blue, gold, pink, and black surrounded by three borders: the outer of a gold floral design, the next of a repeating design in blue and gold and the inner of a floral design of repeating flowers in alternating rose and pink on a gold background; remainder of text has outer ruled bord of thin blue, white, gold, red and dark blue; text block within ruled border in blue, white, red, blue, a wider floral border and an inner border of blue and red; sections separated by a horizontal block in gold; hemistichs divided by a wide dark blue vertical divider with gold highlighting; black ink; catchwords.
• -  Nastaʻlīq; 15 lines in written area 13 x 6.2 cm.
• -  Numerous miniatures throughout the text.
• -  Fol. 1b-466b (incomplete)
• -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M19.
• -  Binding; disbound; text block and many pages loose in remainder of binding which is brown leather; spine lacking.
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

• 4, 466, 4 leaves (incomplete) (15 lines), paper : disbound ; 23 x 13.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• PK6501 .A1 1600z

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/plmp.m019

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2017481612

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2017481612

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