Matla' al-sa'dayn va majma' al- bahrayn (the Rise of the stars and the junction of the two seas) by Abd al-Razzaq ibn Ishaq al-Samarqandi (d.1482)

Object Details

• Description

  Manuscript; Matla' al-sa'dayn va majma' al-bahrayn (the Rise of the stars and the junction of the two seas) by Abd-al- Razzaq ibn Ishaq al-Samarqandi; second volume; Persian in black, red, and gold nasta'liq script; 276 folios with 1 sarlawh (folio 1 verso), 18 paintings, and 1 colophon (folio 276 recto); seals (fols. 1, 21 recto); inscription (folio 1 recto); standard page, one column, 22 lines.

  Binding: The manuscript is bound in black leather over paper pasteboards with blind tooling and a border of multiple fillets. The doublures are of red leather with a border of multiple gold fillets.

• Inscriptions

  Fly leaf: the book of Matla' al-Sa'dayan, illustrated, large-format paper, Samarqandi paper, illuminated, black leather with gold torangic ornamental loop.

  Seal:Ibn Abu al-Fath Muhammad Reza [?].

  Seal:Ibn Abu al-Fath Muhammad Reza [?].

• Provenance

  To 1907

  Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914), London, to 1907 [1]

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna in 1907 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Original List of Persian Miniatures and Manuscripts, pg. 90,

  and Miscellaneous section of Inventory, S.I. 1590, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Hanna, Henry Bathurst

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Language

  Nasta?li-q script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts