Text folio containing the colophon (text recto, colophon verso of folio 3), from a 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.
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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