Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 799q

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DS ID:

DS28417

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 799q

Title:

Divan-i Nevai / ديوان نوائي

Chagatai texts

Author:

Alisher Navoiĭ, 1441-1501 / عليشير نوائي

Ali-Shir Nava'i WIKIDATA

Date:

1816

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Chagatai

Chagatai WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 206 leaves : paper ; 298 x 196 (168 x 88) mm. bound to 300 x 198 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
Copy completed on the 21st of Ṣafar 1231 (1816) -- colophon (fol. 206b).
17 lines per page. Written in an elegant small nastaʻlīq in black ink. The main text is written in two columns in the centre of the page, with additional verses written in the same hand in the margins throughout the ms. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Watercolor drawing of a tree and a flower on fol. 1a. Glazed European paper with a number of large watermarks visible (Italian?). Some...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Chagatai

Nineteenth century

Chagatai poetry

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952190923506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/68ac62bb-2988-49c4-9dc6-7262d8139057/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University