Khātimah-ʼi Tārīkh-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā

Title:

Khātimah-ʼi Tārīkh-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā
خاتمۀ تاریخ روضه الصفا

Alternative title:

Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ
روضة الصفا جلد هشتم
Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ jild-i hashtum
Rowda Toosapha
خلاصه روضة الصفا
Roozut ol Sufa 8
خاتمه تاريخ روضه الصفا
روضة الصفا

Creator:

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

Contributor:

Nuttall, Frank E., former owner

Date:

[1684].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 860 v.8Origin: As appears in colophon on p.279, transcription completed 12 Jumādá I 1095 [ca. 27 April 1684] (where numeral khamsah looks like reverse B).Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- b. Scrap with inscription in ink describing contents "Rawḍat al-Safā vol. 6 [crossed through] 8 A.H. 1089" -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes".Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 9 v.8Binding: Boards covered in light brown leather perhaps once decorated in "marbled calf" manner ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a dark blue wove paper ; spine in dark green and brown leather, gold-stamped with decorative bands and title "ROOZUT OL SUFA 8" ; edges of text block red-flecked ; sewn in white thread over four recessed cords ; worked Western style endbands, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition though with deterioration of treated leather, joints splitting, etc. ; repairs to joints in light brown leather.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper of two main types ; opening (through p.98) in a type with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct) and single chain lines occasionally visible, thin and transluscent though quite sturdy, buff to beige in color, well-burnished ; thereafter (p.98 to close) in a type with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical, somewhat distinct) and single chain lines faintly visible, cloudy formation, somewhat thick, sturdy, burnished, beige in color ; some pest damage, staining and tide lines.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq ; two elegant and compact Persianate hands ; opening through p.98 in naskh, partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, closed and open counters ; p.99 to close in fine nastaʻlīq, serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and somewhat exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 23 and 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 6 IV(48), IV-1 (55), 5 IV(95), IV-1 (102), 4 IV(134), IV-3 (139), ii ; exclusively quaternions ; quite tightly bound with sewing difficult to examine but middle of the quire marks in the form of black oblique strokes appear in the four outer corners of the central opening of each gathering ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inner flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "السلام تاریخ شد تمام بتاریخ ١٢ شهر جمادى الاول سنه ١٠٩٥"Explicit: "سیر فلک یاد بکامش مدام نامه امید بنامش تمام"Incipit: "خاتمه در بدایع و صنایع و آنچه نکاشته کلک قدرت اوست ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.4.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the eighth volume or Khātimah 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) and completed by his nephew Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Khvāndamīr (d.1535).

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Geography Early works to 1800.
World history Early works to 1800.
Iran History Early works to 1800.

Geographic region:

Iran

Extent:

139 leaves : paper ; 277 x 170 (220-235 x 95-100) mm. bound to 285 x 177 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006836603

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