- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached album folio; Page of calligraphy; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; two couplets from the Divan of Jami; corners embellished with triangular illuminated panels.
Border: The text is set in gold, black and white rulings with a gold-sprinkled inner frame, mounted on a paperboard with stenciled birds and floral motifs.
- Inscription(s)
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"In the year [A.H.] 948 [A.D. 1541-1542]."
- Label
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The two couplets by the celebrated poet and mystic Jami (died 1492) are characteristic of the type of lyrical poetry frequently paired with album-page paintings.
My love, why do you not inquire about your friends?
Soothe the heart ache of those thinking of you?
Retract your skirt from my tear drops?
Like the canna flower, why do you not withdraw from the rain?
- 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. 446, p. 360.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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