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The quintet.

Accession number
MS M.445
Object title
The quintet.
Display Date
ca. 1618.
Created
India, probably Ahmadabad, ca. 1618.
Binding
Original binding is lacking; rebound in an 18th-century Ottoman binding; disbound in 2011.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
337 leaves (4 columns, 21 lines), loose : paper, ill. ; 244 x 145 mm
Provenance
Mūsā Khān (name on fol. 3); Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Saʻid, 1760-1761 (name and date on seals, fol. 3, 31, 124, 184, 253); Octave Homberg (1876-1941); his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 11-16, 1908, lot 420; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert, Rome, 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in India, probably in Ahmadabad, ca. 1616.
Scribe: Fatḥ Muḥammad, the son of Mullā Ṣāḥib.
Decoration: 18 miniatures, all of which appear to be by the same artist; colors throughout text: blue, black, gold, blue, purple, jade, burnt orange, maroon, orange, green, pink, white.
Script
nastaʻlīq
Language
Persian
Century
Classification