Dīvān-i sulṭān al-ʻārifīn Jalāl al-Dīn Mawlānā al-Rūmī

Title:

Dīvān-i sulṭān al-ʻārifīn Jalāl al-Dīn Mawlānā al-Rūmī
ديوان سلطان العارفين جلال الدين مولانا الرومي

Alternative title:

Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
دیوان سلطان العارفین مولانا جلال الدین الرومی
دیوان شمس تبریزی
ديوان سلطان العارفين مولانا جلال الدين الرومى
Dīvān-i sulṭān al-ʻārifīn Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī
ديوان شمس تبريزى

Creator:

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana
جلال الدين رومى, مولانا

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Aḥmad Pāshā, patron
احمد پاشا راع

Date:

[15--?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 296Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Executed for (bi-rasm) one Ahmet Paşa ( احمد پاشا ), likely grand vizier (possibly Kara Ahmet Paşa, Hafız Ahmet Paşa, etc.). Decoration, etc. would suggest 16th or 17th century.Former shelfmark: "185 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover ; traces of numeral inscribed on tail edge.Binding: Pasteboards covered in quite dark brown (nearly black) leather (spine and fore edge flap now in dark red leather) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns / flyleaves now in untinted European laid paper with name watermark partially visible (over yellow laid paper) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSh 9), pendants and cornerpieces with gold-painted accents and tooled border ; sewn in pale yellow and dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, damaged ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc. ; has been rebacked (spine repair in dark red brown leather) and fore edge flap has been repaired as well.Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical and horizontal, indistinct), cloudy formation, heavily sized and burnished, glossy and crisp, medium cream in color ; much foxing.Decoration: Illuminated frontispiece (roundel) on 'title page' (p.5) carrying patronage statement / ex libris of Ahmet Paşa ( احمد پاشا ) in white on a gold ground at center and bordered by delicate arabesque with floral motifs in gold, orange, pink, red, yellow and black on a field of lapis lazuli ; elegant illuminated headpiece at opening on p.6 consisting of rectangular piece with central cartouche (more mandorla shape) carrying title ("ديوان سلطان العارفين جلال الدين مولانا الرومى") in white on a gold ground surrounded by a rich arabesque in gold with floral accents in pink, orange, red, yellow, lavender and white on a lapis lazuli ground, surmounted by a narrower rectangle continuing the arabesque composition and itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area (and columns within) surrounded by gold frame ; keywords and headings chrysographed.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; compact, elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-3 (7), 2 V(27), IV (35), 3 V(65), IV (73), 15 V(223), IV (271), IV-2 (277) ; quinions and quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaf and skips two pages between pp.485-486).Incipit: "ای طایران قدس را عشقت فزوده بالها ..."Title from headpiece at opening on p.6.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, commonly called Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīz given the poet's taking the name of his spiritual guide and mystic lover Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Tabrīzī as his takhalluṣ.

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Persian poetry 747-1500.
Sufi poetry, Persian Early works to 1800.

Time period:

747-1500

Extent:

277 leaves : paper ; 228 x 157 (146 x 66) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006812962

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