Folio from the Silsilat al-dhahab (Chain of gold) in the Haft awrang (Seven thrones) by Jami (d. 1492); recto: A father advises his son about love; verso: text
Folio from the Silsilat al-dhahab (Chain of gold) second daftar from the Haft awrang (Seven thrones) by Jami; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: A father advises his son about love; verso: text, illuminated heading in red, gold column dividers, four columns, twenty-one lines of text; one of a group of 304 folios.
Border: The recto is set in multicolored rulings on cream-colored paper with gold floral motifs; the verso is set in multicolored rulings stenciled in pink, outlined in gold.
Inscriptions:
Back wall of the iwan, right-hand side: "May my grief..."
Back wall of the iwan, left-hand side: "I have written on the door and wall of every house about the grief of my love for you/
that perhaps you might pass by one day and read the explanation of my condition"
"In my heart I had his face before me/
"In my heart I had his face before me/
Provenance:
To 1946
Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York. [1]
From 1946
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York. [2]
Notes:
[1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also, Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.
[2] See note 1.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Arts of the Islamic World (May 3, 1998 to January 3, 2016)
The Seven Thrones of Jami: A Princely Manuscript from Iran (June 28, 1997 to March 29, 1998)
Special Exhibition (February 9, 1954 to April 20, 1954)
Special Exhibition, Near Eastern Art (September 15, 1953 to February 9, 1954)
Exhibition of Persian Art (April to May 1940)
Untitled Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit, 1930 (1930)
