H x W (overall): 18.8 x 29.9 cm (7 3/8 x 11 3/4 in)
Type:
Manuscript
Date:
1523-24 (930 A.H.)
Period:
Safavid period
Description:
Detached folio from a copy of the Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (F1932.45) with selections from the work of Ibn Yamin, Omar Khayyam, and Nizami in the margins; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; headings in white; recto: text: two columns, 12 lines with marginal verses; verso: illustration: Chained lion; one of a group of 9 detached folios (F 1932.46-54) from the bound manuscript (F1932.45); accessioned separately.
Border: The text and the painting are set in gold, blue, and red rulings on cream-colored paper.
Provenance:
To 1931
Claude Anet (1868-1931), Paris to 1931 [1]
1932
Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), acquired in Paris, March 21, 1932 [2]
From 1932
Freer Gallery of Art, puchased from Hagop Kevorkian in 1932 [3]
Notes:
[1] Object file, folder sheet note.
[2] See Hagop Kevorkian's letter to Mr. Lodge, dated March 25, 1932 Paris, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[3] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Near Eastern Art—Paintings, Metalwork (August 18, 1967 to February 10, 1972)