Bahār-i dānish

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002 451 leaves : 240 x 150 (180 x 100) mm, bound to 235 x 155 mm Collection of romantic tales in Persian derived from Indian sources. Large areas of text pasted over between f. 405 and 414 Manuscript codex Title from added title (f. 1r) Layout: 13 long lines; catchwords every verso Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed Decoration: Rubrications in red, some missing Origin: Item is undated; probably copied in the 18th century in India Shelfmark: MS Or 374 Effaced owner's statement (f. 451v); partially removed bookplate with the initials MLP [?] (inside back cover) Gift of Alexander Isaac Cotheal Formerly owned by Alexander Isaac Cotheal (stamp f. 2r, 451v, second to last flyleaf verso) Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, four thin, radial lines and frame made up of blind tooled dots Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO