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Or 15602

Record Id:
032-004343454
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Or 15602
Title:
Popular paintings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
5 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1900
End Date:
1999
Date Range:
1900-1999
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15602

Popular paintings

Contents

A bound collection of eight archaistic modern coloured and gilt drawings on card, chiefly illustrating scenes and persons of renown from Persian history and literature.

Apart from the captions, which are contained in gilt cartouches above each picture, there is no text, except in 1v, in which an architectural inscription includes the words [?] Shāh ‘Abbās sanah 123. There is scant artistic merit in this work, which may have been made for the tourist market and was acquired at auction together with an Arabic manuscript.

The subjects of the ‘tableaux’ (majlis) are as follows. 1 (f.1v): Manūchihr. 2 (2r): Yūsuf (the Prophet Joseph) with ‘the King of Egypt’ (Pharaoh). 3 (2v): Shāh ‘Abbās. 4 (3r): Yūsuf and Zulaykhā. 5 (3v): Dārā (the Emperor Darius). 6 (4r): A newly wed couple sitting together. 7 (4v): King Kay-Kāvūs. 8 (5r): King Jamshīd. Folio 1r, the front cover, is blank but for a few scribbled words and numbers; 5v, the back cover, is blank.

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Off-white paper of medium thickness, well sized. Stout card, with some discolouration.
Extent: 5 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 131 mm.

Condition

Hand(s)

Naskhī

Typography

Decoration

Red overlinings. 11 lines. Text frames: black, gold, black; black, gold (wide), gold; blue; black, gold, black. Illuminated heading, f. 1v; interlinear gilding (floral scroll), 1v-2r.

Additions:

Binding

The folios are held together with hinges of canvas.

History

Origin: 1900-1999 20th century CE ; Iran

Provenance and Acquisition

2000-04-13

Acquired from Christies sale 13 April 2000, part of lot 211

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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