Manuscript/Mixed Material [Ātashkadah] [آتشكده]

Title

• [Ātashkadah]

Other Title

• [آتشكده]

Summary

• Biographical dictionary of Persian poets with extensive excerpts from their works.

Names

• Āz̲ar Baygdilī, Luṭf ʻAlī ibn Āqā Khān, 1721 or 1722-1780 or 1781, author

Created / Published

• 1210 [1795 or 1796]

Headings

• -  Poets, Persian--Biography--Early works to 1800
• -  Persian poetry--Early works to 1800
• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Iran

Notes

• -  Manuscript.
• -  Persian
• -  Title supplied by cataloger.
• -  Scribe not indicated.
• -  Date on lower left corner of fol. 240b: "1210".
• -  Probably copied in Iran.
• -  Paper: dark cream-color, glazed laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication and with passages also in gold and blue inks; text enclosed in blue and gold border; very elaborate unwan and gold medallions on the upper and lower corners of each leaf; no catchwords.
• -  Nastaʻliq with Arabic passages in Naskhi; 24 lines in written area 21 x 12.5 cm.
• -  Folios 1b-240b.
• -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, [number].
• -  Tan leather binding with embossed medallions front and back and embossed border.
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

• 240 leaves (24 lines), bound : paper ; 27.7 x 19 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• PK6413 .A92 1795

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/plmp.m004

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2015481466

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2015481466

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