Object Details
- Description
- Folio from the Silsilat al-dhahab (Chain of gold) from the Haft awrang (Seven thrones) by Jami; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto-verso: text; illuminated headings in red and blue; gold column dividers; four columns, twenty-one lines of text; one of a group of 304 folios.
- Border: The recto and the verso are set in multicolored rulings on a pink ground with gold floral motifs.
- Provenance
- To 1946
- Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York. [1]
- From 1946
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York. [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also, Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Untitled Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit, 1930 (1930)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Calligrapher
- Malik al-Daylami
- Date
- 1556-1565
- Period
- Safavid period
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 34.2 x 23.2 cm (13 7/16 x 9 1/8 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
