21.2015.10: Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 10), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 21.2015.10
- Title
- Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 10), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- 1845
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Ottoman period
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/368802
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink, colors, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 21.2015.10
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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The small manuscript of 72 folios opens with an illuminated European-style sarlawh featuring flowers and acanthus leaves. The text is written in Ottoman ta‘liq script. The preface in Ottoman Turkish is arranged in 17 lines to a page, and the verses 12 lines in two columns. Colored papers are used throughout the text. All the folios are decorated with horizontal bars in gold and blue/green separating the quatrains.
The manuscript is copied by Sayyid 'Abdi in 1261/1845. The green leather binding is gilded, and the doublure (inside cove is covered with blue paper with embossed patterns.
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