Dīvān-i Kamāl

Title:

Dīvān-i Kamāl
دیوان کمال

Alternative title:

ديوان كمال

Creator:

Kamāl Khujandī
كمال خجندى

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner

Date:

1499 or 1500].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 343Origin: As appears in colophon on p.307, copied in Qazvīn in 905 [1499 or 1500].Former shelfmark: "486 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "١٣٥" on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards now fully covered in spring-green silk faced / backed with paper (covered boards faced and lined, i.e. silk fully wraps apparently already leather-faced boards as with an overcover / slipcover, compare Isl. Ms. 341) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; flyleaves in yellow surface-dyed and gold-flecked European laid paper (scrollwork with tower at center and "CENEDA" below in back flyleaf [?]) ; upper and lower covers bear traces of stamped mandorlas beneath the textile ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, fairly good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting and losses of cloth and paper, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, indistinct) and no chain lines clearly visible, quite thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; endleaves in European laid paper ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche and flanking pieces overlaid and surrounded with swirling arabesques and floral motifs in shades of gold, red, orange, and pink on fields of lapis lazuli, surrounded by border of turquoise interlace and surmounted by another rectangular piece carrying a row of intertwining arabesque and chī clouds with floral motifs (all in green, lavender, orange, and pink) on a gold ground, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area surrounded by gold frame with defining black fillets and outermost blue rule, columns within also defined by gold rules ; written area gold-flecked ; interlinear glosses rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in roughly 15 lines per page, with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV-1 (7), 18 IV(151), I+1 (154), ii ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," mainly in Arabic, reads "تم الكتاب بدار الموحدين قزوين سنه خمس وتسعمايه م"Incipit: "اقتتاح سخن آن به که کندن اهل کمال بثنای ملک الملک خدای متعال ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a selection of the collected poems of Kamāl Khujandī (d.1400 or 1).

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Persian poetry 747-1500.

Time period:

747-1500

Extent:

154 leaves : paper ; 220 x 135 (148 x 66) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006816077

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