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The quintet (MS M.836).

Accession number
MS M.836
Object title
The quintet (MS M.836).
Display Date
1549-1551.
Created
Qazvīn, Iran, 1549-1551.
Binding
Mamluk brown goatskin gold-tooled, silver-tooled, and gilt punch-dotted binding; created in Egypt or Syria in the late 14th or early 15th century; yellowish tan morocco doublures.
Credit line
Gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1950.
Description
394 leaves (4 columns, 19 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 311 x 220 mm
Provenance
ʻAlī Khān (Beg Turkman, Qazvīn) (name of original owner given on fol. 168); ʻAlī Khān Sulṭān (dārūgha-i sulṭān-i daftarkhāna), for whom it was illuminated, ca. 1579; J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913); Belle da Costa Greene.
Notes
Ms. written ca. 1549-1551; illuminated ca. 1579 in Qazvīn.
Decoration: illuminated borders, 44 miniatures, 4 drawings.
Scribes: Khalīl-Allāh ibn ʻAlī al-Darāb al-Astarābādī (fol. 1v-168) and an unidentified scribe (fol. 169v-391).
Artists: all illumination attributed to Siyāvush, except for fol. 350r, which is attributed to Mihrāb, and folios 248r and 317v, which are by an unknown artist.
Text box varies: 214/218 x 148/150 mm.
Incipit: bismillāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm hast kalīd-i dar-i ganj-i ḥakīm...(fol. 1v).
Script
nastaʻlīq.
Language
Persian
Century
Classification