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iii, 228, ii leaves : 310 x 203 (230 x 120) mm, bound to 320 x 210 mm
An illustrated translation into Persian of a collection of stories of the patriarchs and prophets from the creation to the time of Muḥammad. This collection begins by saying the translation was requested by the (fictitious) Sulṭān Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muẓaffar Khān
Manuscript codex
Title from caption (f. 1v); alternate title from introduction (f. 2r)
Layout: 15 long lines
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed
Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in narrow gold, wide gold and blue; rubrications in red; illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red (f. 1v), 30 color illustrations (f. 7v, 11r, 19r, 22r, 28r, 31v, 36r, 48v, 50v, 52v, 63v, 70r, 75r, 79v, 85v, 90v, 104v, 112v, 114v, 127v, 133r, 139v, 154r, 162r, 167r, 182v, 190v, 198r, 206v, 210r), and an illuminated foliate finispiece in gold (f. 228r)
Origin: Copy completed in 982 AH by Malik Muḥammad ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad al-Kātib (228r)
Brown leather over pasteboard with marbled paper pastedowns
Shelfmark: X892.8 Q1 Q [Folio]
Purchased for Columbia with funds donated by J. Dyneley Prince, James Speyer and Jacob H. Schiff; accessioned 1905 (bookplate inside front cover)
Formerly owned by Carl Reinhardt; purchased from his estate
Milstein, Rachel, Karin Rührdanz and Barbara Schmitz. Stories of the Prophets: Illustrated Manuscripts of Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʼ. Costa Mesa, CA. : Mazda Publishers, ©1999
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description
Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR
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