Accession number
MS G.72
Object title
ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the grandfather of the Prophet Muḥammad, kneels before the Kaaba in Mecca, single leaf with miniature.
Display Date
Jan. 12, 1567.
Created
Possibly Qazvīn, Iran, Jan. 12, 1567.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
1 leaf : paper, ill. ; 135 x 155 mm
Provenance
Purchased in 1959 for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms single leaf, written and illuminated, possibly in Qazvīn, Iran, Jan. 12, 1567.
From a manuscript of the Ās̤ār al-muẓaffar of Niẓām al-Dīn Astarābādī which is dated 1 Rajab 974 (Jan. 12, 1567); it is held in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (MS Pers. 235)--Cf. Schmitz.
From a manuscript of the Ās̤ār al-muẓaffar of Niẓām al-Dīn Astarābādī which is dated 1 Rajab 974 (Jan. 12, 1567); it is held in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (MS Pers. 235)--Cf. Schmitz.
Script
nastaʻlīq
Language
Persian
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