Folio from a Manafi' al-hayawan (Usefulness of animals) by Ibn Bakhtishu (d.1058); verso: Three hoopoes and a bush with red berries; recto: text, Description of hoopoes and their medicinal properties

Object Details

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of a Manafi' al-hayawan (Usefulness of animals) by ibn Bakhtishu; text: Persian in black and red naskhi script; heading in blue kufic script; recto: text: Description of hoopoes and their medicinal properties, one column, 12 lines; verso: Three hoopoes and a bush with red berries, one column, 13 lines; one of a group of 6 folios.

  Border: The text and the painting are set in red rulings on cream-colored paper, mounted on cream-colored paperboard.

• Provenance

  To 1928

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York to 1928 [1]

  From 1928

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York in 1928 [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.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Untitled Exhibition, Persian Manuscripts (May 5, 1933 to September 22, 1947)

  Untitled Exhibition, Persian Art (March 14, 1931 to May 5, 1933)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Kevorkian, Hagop

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Language

  Naskh script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts