Harvard Art Museums > 14.2015: Manuscript of prayers Manuscripts Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Manuscript of prayers , 14.2015,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/352089. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 14.2015 Title Manuscript of prayers Classification Manuscripts Work Type manuscript Date dated 1837 Places Creation Place: Middle East, Iran Period Qajar period Culture Persian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/352089 Physical Descriptions Medium Ink, colors, and gold on paper; leather binding with gilded tooling Dimensions 17 x 10.5 cm (6 11/16 x 4 1/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Ezzat-Malek Soudavar, Geneva, Switzerland (by 2014), by descent; to her son Abolala Soudavar, Houston, Texas (2014), loan; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015. Note: Ezzat-Malek Soudavar (1913-2014) formed this collection over a period of sixty years. She purchased the works of art on the international art market. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar Object Number 14.2015 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description The small manuscript opens with a minutely illuminated double-page frontispiece. The text is copied 15 lines to a page in naskh by ‘Alī Aṣghar b. Muḥammad Shafī‘ al-Arsanjānī in H. 1253 (1837). The manuscript comprises 127 folios, including 4 flyleaves. It contains 80 illuminated headings, one at the beginning of each prayer. All text folios are embellished with interlinear gilding. The manuscript is made for the servant, the humble Aqā Mullā Aḥmad son of the late Karbalā’i Muḥammad ‘Alī Shīrāzī. The leather binding is decorated with gold painted borders and stamped, painted and inlaid central and corner pieces, bearing flower paintings in green and purple/crimson. Inside covers are light brown plain leather with gold borders. Related Works 14.2015.3 The right half of the illuminated frontispiece (illuminated sarlawh verso, blank recto of folio 3), from a manuscript of prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.4 The left half of the illuminated frontispiece (text with illuminated margin recto, text verso of folio 4), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.5 Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 5), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.49 Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 49), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.50 Text folio with illuminated headings (illuminated headings recto; text verso of folio 50), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.58 Text folio with an illuminated heading (text recto; illuminated heading verso of folio 58), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.59 Text folio with an illuminated heading (illuminated heading recto; text verso of folio 59), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.121 Text folio with colophon (text recto; colophon verso of folio 121), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.122 Text folio with an illuminated heading (illuminated heading recto; text verso of folio 122), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.124 Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 124), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts 14.2015.125 Text folio with Persian translation in red (text in red recto; text verso of folio 125), from a manuscript of Prayers Manuscripts Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
