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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.186.1
People
Author: Muhammad ibn Badr Jajarmi, Persian
Title
Illustrated 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: Human, harpy, demon and fairy; Crown, throne, standard and signet ring; Minstrel (Venus), cook (sun), horseshoe (moon), and scribe (Jupiter)
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
1341
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Isfahan
Period
Ilkhanid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216288

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
22.7 x 17 cm (8 15/16 x 6 11/16 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
1960.186.1
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 26-27/figure 2 a-f
  • Eleanor Sims, Boris I. Marshak, and Ernst Grube, Peerless Images: Persian Painting and its Sources, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven; London, 2002), p.324, fig.246

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/03/2015 - 04/26/2016

Verification Level

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