Jild-i panjum-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā

Title:

Jild-i panjum-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā
جلد پنجم روضة الصفا

Alternative title:

Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ
Roozut ol Sufa 5
جلد چهارم روضة الصفاء
جلد چهارم روضه الصفا
روضة الصفا

Creator:

Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh
مير جواند، محمد بن جواندشاه

Contributor:

Nuttall, Frank E., former owner
Shams al-Dawlah Bahādur Mathūr Jang, former owner
شمس الدوله بهادر متهور جنگ, مالك سابق

Date:

[16--?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 860 v.5Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; dated seal impression provides only rough terminus ante quem of 1723 ; paper, etc. may suggest late 17th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes" -- b. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 9 v.5Binding: Boards covered in light orange-brown leather decorated in "marbled calf" manner ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in light-blue surface-dyed wove paper ; spine in dark green and brown leather, gold-stamped with decorative bands and title "ROOZUT OL SUFA 5" ; edges of text block red-flecked ; sewn in white thread over recessed cords ; Western style worked endbands, fair condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with minor abrasion and deterioration of leather, spine leather detaching, minor delamination of boards, etc.Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper (characterized in inscription on inner front flyleaf (p.3) as "كاغذ ایرانی") with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat indistinct, curving) and chain lines occasionally visible, dark cream to beige in color, thin and sturdy, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a thin line ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline and tilt to the right, elongation and somewhat exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 3 VI(36), V+1 (47), 2 VI(71), 3 (74), 5 VI(134), II (138), VI (150), V+1 (161), 2 VI(185), V+1 (196), VI (208), IV-1 (215), ii ; chiefly senions ; sewing difficult to examine but middle of the quire marks in the form of black strokes appear in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf and lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Incipit: "آرایش دیباجه مناقب و تاثیر [سلاطین] رفیع مقدار ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the fifth volume, addressing Chingiz Khān and his successors to the time of Tīmūr, of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va al-khulafāʼ by the Tīmūrid historian Muḥammad ibn Khvāndshāh Mīr Khvānd (d.1498).

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Ilkhanid dynasty History Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Persian
Mongols History Early works to 1800.
World history Early works to 1800.
Iran History 1256-1500 Early works to 1800.
Islamic Empire History 1258-1517 Early works to 1800.

Geographic region:

Iran
Africa, North
Middle East
Spain
Islamic Empire

Time period:

1256-1500
1258-1517

Extent:

215 leaves : paper ; 297 x 177 (205 x 105) mm. bound to 303 x 187 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006836555

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