Accession number
MS M.790.1-2
Object title
Two folios from a dispersed copy of Nuzhatnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī.
Display Date
ca. 1575-1585.
Created
Iran, probably Qazvin, ca. 1575-1585.
Credit line
Purchased in 1935.
Description
2 single leaves (21 lines) : paper, ill. ; 245 x 158 mm
Provenance
Purchased from Demotte and Company, New York, through Herbert P. Weissberger, 1935.
Notes
Ms. sequential folios from the Nuzhatnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī (ʻAlāʼi's book of pleasures) by Shāhmardān ibn Abī al-Khair Rāzī; written and illuminated ca. 1575-1585, probably in Qazvīn.
Decoration: 3 miniatures.
Text box: 188 x 108 mm.
Leaves from this copy are held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Harvard University Art Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Kahn; and the Pozzi Collection, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva; additionally, there were four miniatures which were seen in a 1913 exhibition in Paris, but their present whereabouts are unknown.
Decoration: 3 miniatures.
Text box: 188 x 108 mm.
Leaves from this copy are held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Harvard University Art Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Kahn; and the Pozzi Collection, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva; additionally, there were four miniatures which were seen in a 1913 exhibition in Paris, but their present whereabouts are unknown.
Script
naskh
Language
Persian
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