- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz; painting from a dispersed copy of Haft paykar from the Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami mounted on a folio from a Divan of Hafiz; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: illustration and text: Bahram Gur enthroned after killing the lions; verso: text, four columns, thirteen lines; one of a group of two folios.
Border: The painting and the text are set in gold, red, and green rulings on a paper with landscape, floral and animal motifs.
- 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. 242, p. 213.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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