Accession number
MS M.128
Object title
Anvār-i suhailī.
Display Date
1813.
Created
Iran, possibly Isfahan, 1813.
Binding
Painted lacquer covers in dark brown leather case which was probably made in Central Asia.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description
279 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 292 x 195 mm
Provenance
Āqā Muḥammad ʻAlī Naqqāsh (name on fol 279); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913 (listed as M.224 in both the inventory made after his death and in the first accession book); J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Iran, possibly in Isfahan, and completed 17 Ṣafar 1228 (i.e., Feb. 19, 1813).
Scribe: Ṣādiq, the son of the deceased Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Iṣfahānī, for Āqā Muḥammad ʻAlī Naqqāsh.
Decoration: illuminated title page, 123 miniatures.
Scribe: Ṣādiq, the son of the deceased Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Iṣfahānī, for Āqā Muḥammad ʻAlī Naqqāsh.
Decoration: illuminated title page, 123 miniatures.
Script
naskh
Language
Persian
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