Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209)

Object Details

• Description

  Manuscript; Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; illuminated headings in white; 239 folios with 4 sarlawhs (fols. 1 verso, 74 verso, 124 verso, 172 verso), 17 paintings (fols. 12 recto, 20 verso, 36 verso, 39 verso, 61 verso, 100recto, 102 verso, 105 verso, 107 verso, 113recto, 117 verso, 133 verso, 149 verso, 152recto, 166 verso, 212recto), and 60 imprints of three seals; standard page: 4 columns, 21 lines of text.

  Binding: The manuscript is in a nineteenth-century lacquer-painted binding and doublures of gold floral motifs on red ground.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Henri Vever (1854-1942)

  Hotel Drouot

  Francois Mautin (1907-2003)

• Provenance

  1908

  Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Unidentified Sale, November 24, 1908. [1]

  To 1942

  Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, to 1942 [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] "Unidentified sale, Hôtel Drouot, November 24, 1908," 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 Glenn D. Lowry et al., An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), pp. 229-231, no. 260.

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

  [4] See note 3.

• 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, Hotel Drouot, Vever, Henri

• Place

  Shiraz

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Flowers

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts