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Dīvān (MS M.142).

Accession number
MS M.142
Object title
Dīvān (MS M.142).
Display Date
mid-17th century
Created
Iran, possibly Iṣfahan mid-17th century
Binding
19th-century black leather binding has concentric frames of continuous rinceaux and fillets painted in gold; the red doublures have fillets only.
Credit line
Gift of Dame Florence Caroline Spring Rice, 1925.
Description
229 leaves (2 columns, 14 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 173 x 105 mm
Provenance
Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1859-1918); acquired by the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1925, possibly the gift of Dame Florence Caroline Spring Rice.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Iran, possibly in Iṣfahan, mid 17th century.
Decoration: text decorated with illumination; rulings in blue, black, gold, and red; 3 miniatures.
Script
nastaʻlīq and naskh
Language
Persian
Century
Classification