Calligrapher:

Ya'qut al-Musta'simi  Search this

Medium:

Ink and gold on paper

Dimensions:

H x W: 27.7 x 20.5 cm (10 7/8 x 8 1/16 in)

Type:

Manuscript

Origin:

Iran or Iraq

Date:

February 1283 (781 A.H.)

Period:

Abbasid period

Description:

Manuscript; Divan Shu'r al-Hadira (The collected verses of al-Hadira); text: Arabic in black naskh and thuluth scripts; 13 folios with a title page (folio1 recto), and 1 dated, signed colophon (folio 13verso); seal (folio1 recto); standard page: one column, 9 lines of text.

Border: The manuscript is bound in dark brown leather over pasteboards with gold tooling and doublures of red leather.

Inscriptions:

Colophon, folio 13 verso: "written by Yaqut in the month of Dhu'l-qa'da in the year [A.H.] 781 [February 1283 A.D].

Provenance:

To 1937

Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York. [1]

From 1937

Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York. [2]

Notes:

[1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

[2] See note 1.

Collection:

Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Previous custodian or owner:

Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)

Topic:

Abbasid period (750 - 1258)  Search this

poetry  Search this

naskh script  Search this

thuluth script  Search this

Iraq  Search this

Iran  Search this

Arts of the Islamic World  Search this

Credit Line:

Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

Accession Number:

F1937.28

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Related Online Resources:

Google Cultural Institute

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3fbda20ac-169c-40bc-aa47-d5b8c9e9f188

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:fsg_F1937.28