- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz; painting from a dispersed copy of Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami, Layla and Majnun at school; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: text, two columns, thirteen lines; verso: illustration and text, Layla and Majnun at school; one of a group of two folios.
Border: the text is set in red, gold and black rulings on a paper with landscape and animal motifs; the painting (from a Khamsa) is placed over the text panel (from a Divan) on a paper with stenciled floral 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. 241, p. 212.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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