Folio from Yusuf-u Zulaykha by Jami (d.1492)

Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Yusuf-u Zulaykha by Jami; text: Persian in black nasta’liq script; recto: text, 2 columns, 14 lines; verso: text, The beauty of love is a bird which flies from the nest of unity to the grove of multiplicity, beloved and lover are both part of this unity and multiplicity, 2 columns, 14 lines; one of a group of 13 folios.
Border: The recto is set in gold, red and blue rulings on a paper with floral and animal motifs, silhouetted against a blue background. The verso is set in gold, red and blue rulings on a paper with simurgh, ostrich, bird and landscape motifs, silhouetted against a blue background.

Maker(s)
Author: Jami (died 1492)
Historical period(s)
Safavid period, 1557
Medium
Ink and gold on paper
Dimensions
H x W: 25.2 x 15 cm (9 15/16 x 5 7/8 in)
Geography
Iran, Qazvin
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1937.2
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Manuscript
Type

Manuscript folio

Keywords
animal, illumination, Iran, ostrich, phoenix, Safavid period (1501 - 1722), Yusuf, Zulaykha
Provenance

To ?
Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre (1865-1945), Berlin. [1]

To 1937
Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York. [2]

From 1937
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York. [3]

Notes:

[1] Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record.

[2] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

[3] See note 2.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre 1865-1945
Dr. Jacob Hirsch 1874?-1955

Description

Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Yusuf-u Zulaykha by Jami; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: text, 2 columns, 14 lines; verso: text, The beauty of love is a bird which flies from the nest of unity to the grove of multiplicity, beloved and lover are both part of this unity and multiplicity, 2 columns, 14 lines; one of a group of 13 folios.
Border: The recto is set in gold, red and blue rulings on a paper with floral and animal motifs, silhouetted against a blue background. The verso is set in gold, red and blue rulings on a paper with simurgh, ostrich, bird and landscape motifs, silhouetted against a blue background.

Published References
  • Philipp Walter Schulz. Die Persisch-Islamische Miniaturmalerei: Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte Irans. 2 vols, Leipzig. vol. 2: pl. 125.
Collection Area(s)
Arts of the Islamic World
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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