- Provenance
- Provenance information is currently unavailable
- Previous Owner(s)
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Henri Vever 1854 - 1942
Francois Mautin French, born 1907
- Description
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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: text: Muhammad performed Hajj ceremonies and warned his disciples of his death, one column, twenty-five lines; verso: illustration and text: Muhammad performed the rites of pilgrimage with his son in law; one of a group of twenty folios.
Border: The text is set in gold, red, and blue rulings on cream-colored paper, the painting is set in gold, red, and blue rulings on a paper with animal and floral motifs.
- Published References
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- Glenn D. Lowry, Milo Cleveland Beach, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Susan Nemanzee, Janet Snyder. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. cat. 225, p. 193.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Rights Statement
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Copyright with museum