Folio from a Rawdat al-safa (Garden of felicity) by Mirkhwand (d. 1498); recto: Hamza and Ali in battle; verso: Bravery and courage of Ali and Hamza

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Inayatullah al-katib al-Shirazi

• Author

  Khwandshah (Mirkhwand)

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of a Rawdat al-safa fi sirat al-anbiya' wa-al -muluk wa-al-khulafa (Garden of purity on the lives of the prophets, kings, and caliphs) by Muhammad b. Khwandshah (known as Mirkhwand); text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: illustration and text: Hamza and Ali in battle; verso: text: Bravery and courage of Ali and Hamza, one column, twenty-five lines; one of a group of twenty folios.

  Border: The painting is set in gold, red, and blue rulings on a paper with floral and animal motifs; the text is set in gold, red, and blue rulings on cream-colored paper.

• Provenance

  Unidentified sale, no. 246. [1]

  To 1942

  Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France. [2]

  From 1942 to 1986

  Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [3]

  From 1986

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [4]

  Notes:

  [1] See Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 7: Chart of Recent Provenance" in An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry et al (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 407.

  [2] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.

  [3] See note 2.

  [4] See note 2.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Henri Vever (1854-1942)

  Francois Mautin (1907-2003)

• Origin

  Shiraz, Iran

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Name

  Mautin, Francois Albert, Vever, Henri

• Place

  Shiraz

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Wars, Art, Percussion instrument, Henri Vever collection, Rawzat al-safa, Arts of the Islamic World, Imam Ali, History, Hamza, Prophet

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts