- Provenance
- Provenance information is currently unavailable
- Previous Owner(s)
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Francois Mautin French, born 1907
Henri Vever 1854 - 1942
- Description
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Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi; text: Persian in black naskh script; headings in red; recto: illustration and text, Rustam catches Rakhsh, six columns, thirty-four lines; verso: text, Rustam and Kay Qubad, The reign of Kay Qubad, six columns, thirty-four lines; one of a group of four folios.
Border: The text is set in red rulings on cream-colored paper.
- 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. 87, p. 78.
- B. W. Robinson. Fifteenth-Century Persian Painting: Problems and Issues. Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art and Civilization New York. p. 63.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Rights Statement
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Copyright with museum