Khamsa (Quintet) by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (d.1325)
Manuscript; Khamsa by Amir Khusraw Dihlawi; Persian in black nasta’liq script; 198 folios with four sarlawhs (verso: 1,30,109,147), four dated colophons (29recto, 78recto,108recto and 146recto), and 7 paintings (41verso, 55recto, 70recto, 92recto, 134recto, 161verso and 187verso) attributed to Siyavush Beg or a close follower; seals (fols. 1recto, and 198recto); standard page: four columns, 22 lines of text; headings in red.
Binding: The manuscript was originally bound in papier-mâché, the bounding has been removed, the manuscript is now bound in leather over paper pasteboards stamped with the name of Vever.
- 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. 174-176, no. 205.
[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)
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Octave Homberg
Henri Vever 1854 - 1942
Francois Mautin French, born 1907
- Description
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Manuscript; Khamsa by Amir Khusraw Dihlawi; Persian in black nasta'liq script; 198 folios with four sarlawhs (verso: 1,30,109,147), four dated colophons (29recto, 78recto,108recto and 146recto), and 7 paintings (41verso, 55recto, 70recto, 92recto, 134recto, 161verso and 187verso) attributed to Siyavush Beg or a close follower; seals (fols. 1recto, and 198recto); standard page: four columns, 22 lines of text; headings in red.
Binding: The manuscript was originally bound in papier-mâché, the bounding has been removed, the manuscript is now bound in leather over paper pasteboards stamped with the name of Vever.
- Inscription(s)
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Folio 198 recto, indicated that the manuscript belonged in A.H. 1235 (A.D. 1819-20) to the Beglarbegi of Qarabagh; seals: (flyleaf, oval) Muhammad Husayn b. Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad; (square) The sinful slave Muhammad Husayn; (fol.198 recto, square); His hopeful slave Nuqli Mammad[?] 34; say: He is God, the one!; God, the eternally besought of all!; He begetteth not nor was begotten; And there is none comparable unto him; [From Sura CXII: 1-4].
- Published References
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- Octave Homberg. Publication title unknown. cat. 90, p. 48.
- Glenn D. Lowry Susan Nemanzee. A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. cat. 38, pp. 138-139.
- 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. 205, pp. 174-176.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Rights Statement
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Copyright with museum
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