Haft paykar.
- Holding institution:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Haft paykar.
هفت پيکر - Creator:
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
- Date:
- between 1500 and 1599
- Description:
- Lacunose 16th-century copy of a 12th-century romance about the life of Bahrām Gūr, a 5th-century king of Iran; its title (in English, Seven beauties or Seven images) refers to the seven princesses that Bahrām marries, each of whom tells the king a story as part of the narrative.
- Language:
- Persian
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Persian--16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Codices
Romances (document genre)
Fiction
History
Storytelling - Geographic region:
- Iran
- Provenance:
- Sold by bookseller Thomas Thorpe (London) to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 10465 (stamp, first flyleaf; paper label on spine).Sold at auction at Sotheby's by the Trustees of the Robinson Trust as part of a collection of Persian, Turkish, and Arabic manuscripts owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, 25 November 1968, lot 233, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Extent:
- Written in 2 columns of 17 lines, with additional text written diagonally in margins ruled on the top, outer, and bottom edges of the columns on each page.
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 422: Haft paykar. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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- LJS 422
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World