Accession number
MS M.470
Object title
The quintet (MS M.470).
Display Date
ca. 1585.
Created
Iran, probably Shīrāz, ca. 1585.
Binding
Covers incorporate doublures that quite possibly came from the original binding of the manuscript.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description
292 leaves (4 columns, 22 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 303 x 195 mm
Provenance
Ṣadīq of Ardabil, 1834 (name on fol. 290v); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert, Rome, 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943); the portion of the manuscript now known as M.847.1-3 was in the possession of Belle da Costa Greene.
Notes
Ms.written and illuminated ca. 1585 in Iran, probably in Shīrāz.
Some leaves are lacking--Cf. Schmitz.
Fol. 35 and 62-63 were removed from the manuscript and matted separately, apparently after the manuscript was catalogued by S.H. Taqi-Zadeh in 1914 and are now known as Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.847.1 and MS M.847.2-3
Decoration: gold-sprinked wove paper inserted into plain cream margins; headings are in white naskh; rulings are in black, gold, jade green, orange, light blue, tan, and navy; illuminated headings; 13 miniatures.
Some leaves are lacking--Cf. Schmitz.
Fol. 35 and 62-63 were removed from the manuscript and matted separately, apparently after the manuscript was catalogued by S.H. Taqi-Zadeh in 1914 and are now known as Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.847.1 and MS M.847.2-3
Decoration: gold-sprinked wove paper inserted into plain cream margins; headings are in white naskh; rulings are in black, gold, jade green, orange, light blue, tan, and navy; illuminated headings; 13 miniatures.
Script
nastaʻlīq and naskh
Language
Persian
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