Accession number
MS M.469
Object title
The quintet (MS M.469).
Display Date
between 1674 and 1675.
Created
Iran, between 1674 and 1675.
Binding
Formerly bound in a simple, late 19th century binding with pale green field and a principal border of green rosettes alternating with paired red dots on a red background and narrow flanking black borders with running floral designs in reddish gold; doublures are red with a single tall narcissus; former binding has been preserved as MS M.469A; rebound in 1992 by Deborah Evetts in quarter terracotta morocco binding with natural linen sides.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description
280 leaves (4 columns, 25 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 305 x 181 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in Rome, 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. probably written and illuminated in northern Iran between Rabīʻ II 1085 (i.e., July 6, 1674) and 10 Ṣafar 1086 (i.e., May 7, 1675).
Each of the sections is dated in its colophon; the parts of the manuscript are not in their normal order, but in the order copied.
Scribe: Ghiyās̤ al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Salīm Lātī.
Decoration: each page is ruled in black and gold lines; illuminated headings; 36 miniatures, 1 drawing.
Artist: unknown; probably erroneously ascribed to Muḥammad Zamān ibn Ḥājī Yūsuf Qumī and his brother Ḥājī Muḥammad.
The manuscript is written on thin cream European paper.
Each of the sections is dated in its colophon; the parts of the manuscript are not in their normal order, but in the order copied.
Scribe: Ghiyās̤ al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Salīm Lātī.
Decoration: each page is ruled in black and gold lines; illuminated headings; 36 miniatures, 1 drawing.
Artist: unknown; probably erroneously ascribed to Muḥammad Zamān ibn Ḥājī Yūsuf Qumī and his brother Ḥājī Muḥammad.
The manuscript is written on thin cream European paper.
Script
nastaʻlīq
Language
Persian
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