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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.180
Title
The Imam Ali in Battle, an illustrated folio from a manuscript of Hafiz-i Abru's "Majma' al-Tawarikh (The Assembly of Histories)
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
c. 1425
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/173312

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
folio: 42.5 x 33.3 cm (16 3/4 x 13 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.180
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 33, 113, no. 59
  • Mohamad Reza Ghiasian, The “Historical Style” of Painting for Shahrukh and Its Revival in the Dispersed Manuscript of Majma? al-Tawarikh (Taylor & Francis Online, June 17, 2014)

Verification Level

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