MS 1-1969 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

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Summary of Contents: A Khamsah-i Niẓāmī by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3

Title: Khamsah-i Niẓāmī

Title: خمسۀ نظامى

Author: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 نظامى گنجوى

Language(s): Persian

References

MS 01-1969

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: 466 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 142 mm.

Dimensions (written): 167 × 103 mm.

Layout

Each page is set within five rules of blue, black and gold. The text is dived into 4 columns, 19 lines.

Hand(s)

Decoration

The title-page is fully illuminated, in blue and gold, polychrome sprays of flowers, and interlaced ornaments in vermilion. Headings of formal ornament occur at the beginning of every chapter of the Khamsah.

There are 42 paintings in different hands.

Seal(s):

The same seal occurs on many folios of the manuscript. A reading supplied by B.W.Robinsonis "The slave Ali-Husayni".

History

Origin: c. 1465-1475 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Given by Mrs Reynolds, daughter of J.H. Middleton, as is bequeathed by her father, January 1969.

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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