Read Album of Persian Miniatures
Accession number:
MS M.386
Title:
Read Album of Persian Miniatures
Created:
ca. 1600.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description:
1 single leaf : paper on card, ill. ; 378 x 241 mm
Provenance:
Ḥusain Khān Shāmlū (d. 1618) and possibly his son, Ḥasan Khān; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Charles Hercules Read in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
The surround contains cuttings from a manuscript qasida by ʻUrfī in "-am rā".
Artist: possibly by Ḥabīb-Allāh al-Mashhadī (fl. 1595-1610).
Miniature measures 163 x 78 mm.
Language:
Surround in Persian
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