Object Details
- Description
- Manuscript; Mihr u Mushtari (the Sun and Jupiter) by Assar; Persian in black nasta'liq script; headings in gold; 233 folios, flyleaf with inscription, a double-page frontispiece (fol. 1 verso, 2 recto), 3 paintings (117recto,146verso, 161verso), inscriptions and dated colophon (fol. 233recto); seals (flyleaf, and 233recto); standard page: 2 columns, 11 lines of text.
- Binding: The manuscript is bound in brown leather over paper pasteboards with a scalloped central medallion and corner pieces. The doublures are of brown leather filigree over a blue paper ground.
- Inscriptions
- Colophon: fol. 233 recto:
- "The book was finished with God's help and assistance in the year [A.H.] 882,
- "The book was finished with God's help and assistance in the year [A.H.] 882,
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Author
- 'Assar
- Shaykh Murshid al-Katib
- Date
- 1477 (882 A.H.)
- Period
- Turkmen period, Aq Qoyunlu dynasty
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Medium
- Ink and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 20.1 x 12.2 cm (7 15/16 x 4 13/16 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
