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Folio with an illumination (text recto; illumination verso of folio 6), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam
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The small manuscript of 72 folios opens with an illuminated European-style sarlawh featuring flowers and acanthus leaves. The text is written in Ottoman ta‘liq script. The preface in Ottoman Turkish is arranged in 17 lines to a page, and the verses 12 lines in two columns. Colored papers are used throughout the text. All the folios are decorated with horizontal bars in gold and blue/green separating the quatrains.
The manuscript is copied by Sayyid 'Abdi in 1261/1845. The green leather binding is gilded, and the doublure (inside cove is covered with blue paper with embossed patterns.
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: Folio with an illumination (text recto; illumination verso of folio 6), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam
Description:
The small manuscript of 72 folios opens with an illuminated European-style sarlawh featuring flowers and acanthus leaves.
The text is written in Ottoman ta‘liq script.
The preface in Ottoman Turkish is arranged in 17 lines to a page, and the verses 12 lines in two columns.
Colored papers are used throughout the text.
All the folios are decorated with horizontal bars in gold and blue/green separating the quatrains.
The manuscript is copied by Sayyid 'Abdi in 1261/1845.
The green leather binding is gilded, and the doublure (inside cove is covered with blue paper with embossed patterns.
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