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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.186.2
People
Author: Muhammad ibn Badr Jajarmi, Persian
Title
Folio from a manuscript of Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa 'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Men's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi: Treasurer, money changer, courier and jeweler; tent, pavilion, drum, and banner; lion, onager, wolf, sheep, partridge and hawk
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa 'iq al-ash'ar
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
1341
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Isfahan
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215387

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
8.5 x 6 cm (3 3/8 x 2 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hagop Kevorkian, New York (by 1914). Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, (by 1960), bequest; to the Fogg Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.186.2
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Georges Marteau and Henri Vever, Miniatures persanes; tirées des collections de MM. Henry d'Allemagne, Claude Anet, Henri Aubry...et exposées au Musée des arts décoratifs, juin -- octobre 1912., exh. cat., Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie (Paris, 1913), vol. I, no. 55, pl. 49
  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), p. 112, no. 50
  • Marie Lukens Swietochowski and Stefano Carboni, Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330's and 1340's, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1994), page 28-29

Verification Level

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