Divan shu'r al-Hadira (The collected verses of al-Hadira)

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Ya'qut al-Musta'simi

• Description

  Manuscript; Divan Shu'r al-Hadira (The collected verses of al-Hadira); text: Arabic in black naskh and thuluth scripts; 13 folios with a title page (folio1 recto), and 1 dated, signed colophon (folio 13verso); seal (folio1 recto); standard page: one column, 9 lines of text.

  Border: The manuscript is bound in dark brown leather over pasteboards with gold tooling and doublures of red leather.

• Inscriptions

  Colophon, folio 13 verso: "written by Yaqut in the month of Dhu'l-qa'da in the year [A.H.] 781 [February 1283 A.D].

• Provenance

  To 1937

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

  From 1937

  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

  Iran or Iraq

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  900s, 800s, 700s, 1100s, 1200s, 1000s

• Name

  Kevorkian, Hagop

• Topic

  Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Poetry

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians, Abbasids, Iraqis

• Language

  Naskh script, Thuluth script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts