the Guy u Chawgan (The ball and the polo-mallet) by Arifi (d.1449)

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Shah Mahmud Nishapuri

• Description

  Manuscript; A section of Guy u Chawgan (The ball and the polo-mallet) by Arifi; Persian in black nasta'liq script; 21 folios with two paintings (fols.9 verso and 17recto), and a dated colophon (folio 21recto); inscriptions (folio 21recto); standard page: 2 columns; 12 lines; folios: F1935.19 and F1935.20 are parts of the manuscript F1935.18 and have been accessioned separately.

  Binding: The manuscript is bound in leather over paper pasteboards with gold block-stamped exterior covers and red leather doublures of gold and black paper filigree over a blue ground.

• Inscriptions

  Folio 21recto: Written by the poor slave Shah Mahmud al-Shahi of Nishapur, may God pardon his sins and forgive his faults, in the month of Safar of the year A.H. 953 [1546 A.D.] of the Hijra of the Prophet, Peace upon Him, at the capital Tabriz.

  Folio 21recto: Written by the poor slave Shah Mahmud al-Shahi of Nishapur, may God pardon his sins and forgive his faults, in the month of Safar of the year A.H. 953 [1546 A.D.] of the Hijra of the Prophet, Peace upon Him, at the capital Tabriz.

• Provenance

  To 1935

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

  From 1935

  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)

• Origin

  Tabriz, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Name

  Kevorkian, Hagop

• Place

  Tabriz

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians, Dervishes

• Language

  Nasta?li-q script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts