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The left half of the illuminated frontispiece (text with illuminated margin recto, text verso of folio 4), from a manuscript of Prayers
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The small manuscript opens with a minutely illuminated double-page frontispiece. The text is copied 15 lines to a page in naskh by ‘Alī Aṣghar b. Muḥammad Shafī‘ al-Arsanjānī in H. 1253 (1837). The manuscript comprises 127 folios, including 4 flyleaves. It contains 80 illuminated headings, one at the beginning of each prayer. All text folios are embellished with interlinear gilding. The manuscript is made for the servant, the humble Aqā Mullā Aḥmad son of the late Karbalā’i Muḥammad ‘Alī Shīrāzī. The leather binding is decorated with gold painted borders and stamped, painted and inlaid central and corner pieces, bearing flower paintings in green and purple/crimson. Inside covers are light brown plain leather with gold borders.
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: The left half of the illuminated frontispiece (text with illuminated margin recto, text verso of folio 4), from a manuscript of Prayers
Description:
The small manuscript opens with a minutely illuminated double-page frontispiece.
The text is copied 15 lines to a page in naskh by ‘Alī Aṣghar b.
Muḥammad Shafī‘ al-Arsanjānī in H.
1253 (1837).
The manuscript comprises 127 folios, including 4 flyleaves.
It contains 80 illuminated headings, one at the beginning of each prayer.
All text folios are embellished with interlinear gilding.
The manuscript is made for the servant, the humble Aqā Mullā Aḥmad son of the late Karbalā’i Muḥammad ‘Alī Shīrāzī.
The leather binding is decorated with gold painted borders and stamped, painted and inlaid central and corner pieces, bearing flower paintings in green and purple/crimson.
Inside covers are light brown plain leather with gold borders.
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