Folio from a Manafi' al-hayawan (Usefulness of animals) by Ibn Bakhtishu (d.1058); recto: Two herons under pendant branches; verso: Four grouses in flight

Object Details

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Manafi' al-hayawan (Usefulness of animals) by Ibn Bakhtishu; text: Persian in black and red naskhi script with title in black kufic script; recto: illustration and text: Two herons under pendant branches, one column, 13 lines; verso: illustration and text: Four grouses in flight, one column, 11 lines; one of a group of 6 folios.

  Border: The text and the painting have been remargined.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)

• Provenance

  To 1927

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York to 1927 [1]

  From 1927

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York in 1927 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase -- Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Kevorkian, Hagop

• Topic

  Grouse, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Mongol period (1220 - 1380), Herons, Il-Khanid dynasty (1256 - 1353)

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Language

  Naskh script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts