- Provenance
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From at least 1931
Octave Homberg, Paris, from at least 1931 [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] The object is documented as having appeared in the collection of Octave Homberg by at least June 1931. 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. 152-154, no. 180.
[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.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Octave Homberg
Henri Vever 1854-1942
Francois Mautin 1907 - 2003
- Description
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Manuscript; Tuhfat al-ahrar (Gift of the free) by Jami; Persian in black nasta'liq script; headings in gold and red; 78 folios with a signed double-page frontispiece (folio 1 verso, 2 recto), one sarlawh (folio 2 verso), and a dated colophon, inscriptions and seals (folio 78 verso); standard page: two columns, 13 lines of text.
Binding: The manuscript is bound in leather over paper pasteboards with gold block-stamped exterior covers; the doublures are of gold block-stamped and leather filigree over a multicolored paper ground. The envelop flap has a border identical to that on the upper and lower covers; the pages of the manuscript are mounted in multicolored borders decorated with gold floral designs and marginal medallions.
- Inscription(s)
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Folio 78 verso: "[On] the date of the 9th of Isfand...in the year 49[?] [it] was seen; [on the] tenth of [Adhar] of the year ...[it] was seen; [on] the 21st of Jumada II in the year [A.H] 1069 [A.D. March 16, 1659] [it] was seen;" seals: (fol. 78 verso, circular) [illegible] stamps: black ink.
- Published References
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- Glenn D. Lowry, Susan Nemanzee. A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. p. 36, fig. 16.
- Octave Homberg. Publication title unknown. cat. 88, p. 47, pl. XXXIX.
- Oleg Grabar. The Meditation of Ornament. Princeton. p. 108, fig. 80.
- 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. 180, pp. 152-154.
- Henry Corbin, Paul Pelliot, Eustache de Lorey. Les Arts de l'Iran, l'ancienne Perse, et Bagdad. Paris. cat. 69, p. 163.
- Marianna Shreve Simpson, Massumeh Farhad. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran. Washington and New Haven. p. 369.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
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