Object Details
- Description
- Folio from the Khusraw va Shirin in the Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: text: 4 columns, 15 lines; verso: illustration: Shirin on horseback carried on the shoulders of Farhad; from the manuscript F1908.199.
- Binding: The folio is bound with the rest of the manuscript in brown leather over paper pasteboards with doublures of cream-colored paper.
- Provenance
- To 1908
- Tabbagh Frères, Paris, to 1908 [1]
- From 1908 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tabbagh Frères, Paris, through the Bauer-Folsom Company, New York, in 1908 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See List of Persian Books and Paintings, S.I. 1592, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. In 1932, F1908.259-.284 were separated from F1908.199 and given their current numbers.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Persian Art (January 1, 1963 to September 3, 1963)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Tabbagh Frères (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Calligrapher
- Murshid al-Shirazi
- Date
- 1548 (955 A.H.)
- Period
- Safavid period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 31.1 x 19.7 cm (12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
