Accession number
MS M.1105
Object title
[Mas̲navī].
Display Date
1823-1824.
Created
Iran, 1823-1824.
Binding
Black Persian goatskin stamped and gilt.
Credit line
Gift of Lydia L. Redmond in memory of her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clearwater, 1996.
Description
269 leaves (4 columns, 25 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 292 x 198 mm
Provenance
Lydia L. Redmond; gift of Lydia L. Redmond in memory of her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clearwater, in 1996.
Notes
Ms. moral fables, written and illuminated in Iran (Persia), dated A.H. 1239 (A.D. 1823-1824).
A variety of watermarks on the polished paper: one with a 6-pointed star has PICARDO below, comparable with Heawood 3737-8, ca. 1825, Picardo was Genoese; another with a nude profile woman standing on a ball on one foot, the other lifted up, holding a banner over her head with both hands in the classical tradition; banner reads AM...; the word GRILLO below, GRILLO not found, but the figure approximate to Heawood 1364, dated Amsterdam ca. 1769, 1770.
Decoration: 1 elaborate decorative 1/2-page headpiece on folio 1v, illuminated in liquid gold and colors.
A variety of watermarks on the polished paper: one with a 6-pointed star has PICARDO below, comparable with Heawood 3737-8, ca. 1825, Picardo was Genoese; another with a nude profile woman standing on a ball on one foot, the other lifted up, holding a banner over her head with both hands in the classical tradition; banner reads AM...; the word GRILLO below, GRILLO not found, but the figure approximate to Heawood 1364, dated Amsterdam ca. 1769, 1770.
Decoration: 1 elaborate decorative 1/2-page headpiece on folio 1v, illuminated in liquid gold and colors.
Script
nastaʻlīq
Language
Persian and Arabic
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