Details

Standardized Title:

Gulistān
گلستان http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018028709

Subjects:

Persian literature -- 747-1500.
Persian literature.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian.
Manuscripts, 16th century.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Illuminations (painting)

Language:

Persian.

Summary:

Collection of Persian stories and poems.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Collation: Paper, 112; 1⁸ 2⁶ 3¹² 4¹⁰ 5¹² 6⁸ 7¹² 8⁶ 9-10⁸ 11⁶ 12¹⁰ 13⁶; no foliation. Catchwords each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines with occasional marginal notes.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold and red (p. [1]); rubrications in red.
Binding: Dark brown leather, cut smaller than the textblock and damaged along the bottom edge.
Origin: Copy complete in A.H. 916 (1510 or 1511 CE) by Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh ibn Muḥammad Malikshāh al-Juvaynī, from Khurasan (p. [227]).
Stamp (p. [226]).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly held by the Nalima Library (note laid in manuscript).
Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 207

Contributor:

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, donor.
Juvaynī, Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh ibn Muḥammad Malikshāh, scribe.
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
جويني، محمد بن ملكشاه بن محمد ملكشاه، scribe.

OCLC:

961923254