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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.155
Title
Illustrated manuscript of Khusraw and Shirin of Sheyhi
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
painting with text
Date
c. 1500
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
Period
Ottoman period
Culture
Ottoman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215611

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Owned by "Dervish" in Dhul-Hijja, 1050 (April-March 1641). Owned by al-Sayyid Murtada Efendi known as Surkh-Sar ("Redhead") [note on flyleaf]
Purchased by John Goelet from Sotheby's, through Maggs Bros., London [curatorial file]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.155
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This is an illustrated manuscript of the Khusraw and Shirin of Sheyhi, composed in Turkish. The small manuscript is copied in vocalized naskh in two columns and fifteen lines to a page. The manuscript is not paginated and a few folios are missing at the beginning. The two endpapers at the beginning and one at the end have been included in the folio numbering. There are six text-block size miniatures:
Miniature 1, 48v: Shirin questions Shavur about the image of Khusraw.
Miniature 2, 92r: Khusraw and Shirin meet each other unexpectedly as they hunt.
Miniature 3, 109r: Khusraw's combat with the lion
Miniature 4, 149v: Farhad visits Shirin after carving a milk channel for her.
Miniature 5, 164v: Farhad and the old woman
Miniature 6, 226r: Khusraw marries Shirin

Publication History

  • Ayşin Yoltar, "The role of illustrated manuscripts in Ottoman luxury book production: 1413-1520" (PHD diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2002), New York University, pp.316-323, 339, 343, 350, 351, pls. 215-221.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/08/2017 - 04/19/2018

Verification Level

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