Anthology

Object Details

• Description

  Manuscript; Anthology; text: Persian in black, white and red nasta'liq script; selections from Nizami’s Khamsa, Sanai’s Hadiqa al-haqiqa wa-sharia al-tariqa, Amir Khusraw Dihlavi’s Layla u Majnun, Hafiz’s Divan, and Sayf Asfar Begi’s Divan. The anthology also contains the Saqinama and several unidentified poems by Sa’di and Khaqani; 95 folios, 1 sarlawh (folio 1 verso), and 15 paintings (fols. 4 recto, 8 verso, 12 recto, 20 recto, 21 verso, 25 recto, 32 verso, 41recto, 46 recto, 56 verso, 59 verso, 72 recto, 74 verso, 92verso, 95recto).

  Binding: The binding is of leather over paper pasteboards decorated with gilt block-stamped designs on the exterior covers; the doublures are of leather with a central medallion.

• Provenance

  From at least 1881

  Compte de Gobineau, France. [1]

  From at least 1899

  Coutenceau. [2]

  To 1942

  Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France. [3]

  From 1942 to 1986

  Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [4]

  From 1986

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [5]

  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. 400.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See note 1.

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

  [5] See note 4.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  International Exhibition of Persian Art (January 7 to March 7, 1931)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Henri Vever (1854-1942)

  Coutenceau

  Compte de Gobineau

  Francois Mautin (1907-2003)

• Origin

  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, Compte de Gobineau, Vever, Henri, Coutenceau

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Anthology, Illumination, Painting (image-making), Flowers, Sarlawh

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts