Accession number
MS W.56
Object title
[Persian manuscript].
Display Date
1823.
Created
[Iran], 1823.
Binding
Leather covers with gold leaf onlay and tooling, rebacked, red leather doublures with stamped, gold onlay. In green cloth wrapper, fitted in cloth and paper case.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description
101 leaves (2 columns, 11 lines), bound : marbled, polished paper, ill. ; 248 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Zorawer Singk (owner's stamp on fol. 91); Walter Schatzki, New York; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman from Schatzki in 1954; JPW 2009; Julia Parker Wightman bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. persian manuscript, poetry (?); written and illuminated in Iran in 1823.
According to Anne Contedini (on April 11, 2001), date (on fol. 12r) is 1239 = 1823.
Decoration: 1 illuminated headpiece (fol. 12v); 8 illuminated pages with gold leaf grounds, decorated with floral motifs and interspersed with birds and animals (fols 11v-12, 12v-13, 90v-91, 91v-92); and 2 pages with a frieze of 3 drawings of animals, in gold (fos. 9v and 93r). Each page (fol. 9v-93r) consists of a central text block bordered by marbled paper patterns, a different configuration on each page. Titles written in orange-red on gold panels with floral decoration.
According to Anne Contedini (on April 11, 2001), date (on fol. 12r) is 1239 = 1823.
Decoration: 1 illuminated headpiece (fol. 12v); 8 illuminated pages with gold leaf grounds, decorated with floral motifs and interspersed with birds and animals (fols 11v-12, 12v-13, 90v-91, 91v-92); and 2 pages with a frieze of 3 drawings of animals, in gold (fos. 9v and 93r). Each page (fol. 9v-93r) consists of a central text block bordered by marbled paper patterns, a different configuration on each page. Titles written in orange-red on gold panels with floral decoration.
Script
nasta'līq
Language
Persian
Century
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