- Provenance
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To 1908
Tabbagh Frères, Paris, to 1908 [1]From 1908 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tabbagh Frères, Paris, through the Bauer-Folsom Company, New York, in 1908 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See List of Persian Books and Paintings, S.I. 1592, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Tabbagh Frères (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Description
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Manuscript; Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami; Persian in black nasta'liq script; 430 folios with a double-page frontispiece (fols. 1 verso, 2 recto), 4 sarlawhs (fols. 129,196, 260, 382 verso), 25 paintings, 1 dated colophon (folio 430 recto), and a dated flyleaf; inscriptions (flyleaf); standard page, 4 columns, 19 lines; one of a group of 27 folios.
Binding: The manuscript was originally bound in leather over paper paste boards with gold embossed tooling, filigree designs over a blue ground, fore-edge flap panels with inlaid gold leather nasta'liq script, and doublures of lacquered papier-mâché, the binding has been removed, the manuscript is now bound in brown leather.
- Inscription(s)
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Flyleaf: Khamsa-i Nizami khatt Morshed Khushnevis [?].
"Khamsa-i Nizami by the hand of Morshed Khushnevis [?]."Alah Akbar, khamsa sheykh Nizami, be tarikh seneh 1041 hejri [?].
“God is great, Khamsa Sheykh Nizami, dated [A.H. 1041] [A.D.1631]."Colophon (folio 430 recto): Tam al-kitab be'un al-mulk al-vahhab al-mosum be Khamsa men kalam afsah-i al-mutekalemin shaykh al-'arefin va al-'ashegin mashhur al-afagh marazi al-akhlagh Hakim Nizami Ghangi alayhe va rahme va al-gufran afi tarikh khames shahr shaval sene khams va [khams?n] va tas'emaye al-bahriye ala yad-i aghal al-'ebad murshid al-katib al-Shirazi gafr zenube va setr 'uyube.
- Published References
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- Abolala Soudavar, Milo Cleveland Beach. Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection. New York. p. 245.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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