- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Manuscript; Khamsa (Quintet) by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi; Persian in black nasta'liq script; 238 folios with a frontispiece (fols. 1 verso, 2 recto), 5 sarlawhs (fols. 2 verso, 44 verso, 99 verso,134 verso, 180 verso), 13 paintings (30 recto, 46 verso, 54 verso, 107 recto, 120 verso, 148 recto, 152 recto, 160 verso, 167 recto, 172 recto, 197 recto, 202 verso, 207 recto), 1 dated colophon and inscriptions on folio 238 recto; 2 seals (fols. 1 recto, 1 verso); standard page: 4 columns, 19 lines of text.
Binding: The manuscript is bound in black leather over paper pasteboards with block-stamped exterior covers and doublures of red leather.
- Inscription(s)
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Fol. 238 recto: The book was finished with the help of the munificent Lord during the month of Jumada 1 in the year [A.H.] 970 [A.D. December 1562-January 1563]; seals: (fol. 1 recto, oval) Ali Muhammad; (fol. 1 verso, square) Muhammad Ali Abd al-Baqi al-Husayni.
- 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. 204, p. 173.
- Fereshteh Daftari. The Influence of "Persian Art" on Gauguin, Matisse, and Kandinsky. Ann Arbor. p. 175, 314.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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