Folio from an unidentified text; recto: colophon, verso: A picnic in a garden

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Qasim Ali Shirazi

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed manuscript; text: Persian and Arabic in black nasta'liq script; right-hand half recto: text: colophon, one column, fourteen lines, verso: A picnic in a garden; facing folio (S1986.194.2); Left-hand half recto: A picnic in a garden, verso: blank; one of a group of two folios.

  Border: The painting is set in an illuminated border with floral and geometric motifs mounted on paperboard.

• Inscriptions

  Colophon: “written by Qasim Ali Shirazi, year [A.H.] 917 [A.D. 1511-12]."

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  Paintings from Shiraz (December 24, 1994 to August 27, 1995)

• Origin

  Shiraz, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Qasim Ali Shirazi

• Place

  Shiraz

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Rites and ceremonies, Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Gardens

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts