- Provenance
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To 1907
Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914), London, to 1907 [1]From 1907 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna in 1907 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original List of Persian Miniatures and Manuscripts, pg. 90, and Miscellaneous section of Inventory, S.I. 1590, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (C.L. Freer source) 1839-1914
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Description
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Manuscript; Matla' al-sa'dayn va majma' al-bahrayn (the Rise of the stars and the junction of the two seas) by Abd-al- Razzaq ibn Ishaq al-Samarqandi; second volume; Persian in black, red, and gold nasta'liq script; 276 folios with 1 sarlawh (folio 1 verso), 18 paintings, and 1 colophon (folio 276 recto); seals (fols. 1, 21 recto); inscription (folio 1 recto); standard page, one column, 22 lines.
Binding: The manuscript is bound in black leather over paper pasteboards with blind tooling and a border of multiple fillets. The doublures are of red leather with a border of multiple gold fillets.
- Inscription(s)
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Fly leaf: the book of Matla' al-Sa'dayan, illustrated, large-format paper, Samarqandi paper, illuminated, black leather with gold torangic ornamental loop.
Seal:Ibn Abu al-Fath Muhammad Reza [?].
Colophon.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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