- Provenance
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To 1940
Heeramaneck Galleries, New York to 1940From 1940
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries, New York in 1940 [1]Notes:
[1] Undated folder sheet note. For additional information, see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Heeramaneck Galleries
- Description
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Detached folio from an unidentified manuscript; illuminated frontispiece; Arabic in white thuluth script; marginal medallion; vocalized in white.
Border: The frontispiece is set in blue rulings on cream-colored paper.
- Published References
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- Richard Ettinghausen, Ernst Kuhnel. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. 6 vols., London and New York, 1938 - 1939. vol. 3: p. 2698ff.
- Bernhard Moritz. Arabic Paleography: A Collection of Arabic Texts from the First Century of the Hidjra till the year 1000. Publications (Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyah), no. 16 Cairo. pls. 55, 59.
- Richard Ettinghausen. Yemenite Bible Manuscripts of the XVth Century. Jerusalem. pl. 21.
- Dr. Esin Atil. Exhibition of 2500 Years of Persian Art. Exh. cat. Washington, 1971. cat. 4, p. 1.
- Islamic Art and Archaeology: Collected Papers. Berlin. pp. 862-884.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
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