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Zulaykha Asks Her Nanny to Think of a Plot (painting recto; text verso of folio 75); illustrated folio from a manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha by Nizami
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The manuscript opens with an illuminated sarlawh (heading) above the text. The margins of the double-page frontispiece are decorated with gold floral drawings and large illuminated cartouches. The text is copied in nastaʿliq in two columns and 15 lines on gold sprinkled paper. The text panels are remargined on various colored papers. There are ten paintings in the manuscript.
The dark and reddish-brown leather binding is decorated with a gilt-stamped inlays in the center medallion, pendants, corner pieces and cartouches of the border. The edges have been repaired at some point. The inside covers are plain olive green leather.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
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.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Loan from A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar
Title: Zulaykha Asks Her Nanny to Think of a Plot (painting recto; text verso of folio 75); illustrated folio from a manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha by Nizami
Description:
The manuscript opens with an illuminated sarlawh (heading) above the text.
The margins of the double-page frontispiece are decorated with gold floral drawings and large illuminated cartouches.
The text is copied in nastaʿliq in two columns and 15 lines on gold sprinkled paper.
The text panels are remargined on various colored papers.
There are ten paintings in the manuscript.
The dark and reddish-brown leather binding is decorated with a gilt-stamped inlays in the center medallion, pendants, corner pieces and cartouches of the border.
The edges have been repaired at some point.
The inside covers are plain olive green leather.
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