MS 24-1948 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

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Summary of Contents: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā-yi Jāmī by Jāmī, 1414-1492

Title: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā-yi Jāmī

Title: يوسف وزليخای جامی

Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامی

Language(s): Persian

References

MS 24-2948

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: 176 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 150 mm.

Dimensions (written): 150 × 80 mm.

Layout

The text is written in 2 columns, 12 lines.

Hand(s)

Ayshi al-Katib

Decoration

Every page presents the text framed in ruled lines in blue and gold. The textblock is inset into wider borders decorated with gilded flower scrolls. The headings are written in golden ink.

Two paintings and two calligraphic specimens have been inserted at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript.

Seal(s):

There is a large number of seals on the first and end leaves.

History

Origin: 944 AH / 1537-38 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum by P.C. Manuk and Miss G.M. Coles, through the National Art Collections Fund,1948.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Francis Wormald and Phyllis M. Giles "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum acquired between 1895 and 1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)", Cambridge University Press, 1982; with corrections and additions supplied by Marcus Fraser and Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti.

Availability

The manuscript can be consulted in the Graham Robertson Study room at The Fitzwilliam Museum, on an appointment only basis. To request an appointment, please email collections@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk citing the manuscript number.

Funding of Cataloguing

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Subjects

Persian poetry

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