AlbumsPersian19th century

Manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

dated 1877

Description

The album has six folios in the folding or accordion format. The text is copied in large nasta`liq by the scribe Ghulam Riza for his son, Farid al-Din Muhammad Taqi al-Jayli in H. 1294 (1877). The light brown leather binding is covered with a decorated paper on the interior.

Classification

Albums

Medium

Ink, colors, and gold on paper; leather binding with gilded tooling

Culture

Persian

Period

Qajar period

Century

19th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art

Dimensions

30 x 19.5 cm (11 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

Provenance

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.

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