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Accession number:
MS M.469
Title:
The quintet
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:
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.
Script:
nasta'liq
Language:
Persian
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