- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Bustan (Orchard) by Sa'di; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script, headings in white; right-hand half recto: blank, verso: right-hand half of a double-page frontispiece, facing folio (S1986.193.2); left-hand half recto: Execution of the Barsisa, verso: blank; one of a group of two folios.
Border: The painting is set in an illuminated border with geometric motifs mounted on paperboard.
- Inscription(s)
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S1986.193.1: Cartouches, top and bottom page: "the book of Bustan, Sa'di Shirazi."
S1986.193.2: Cartouches, top and bottom page: "Shaykh Muslih al-Din, [God's] mercy upon him."
- 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. 279, p. 245.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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