Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); verso: text
Object Details
- Description
- Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami; Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: couplets from chapter eight: In considering of good omen from the Khusraw u Shirin; verso: couplets from Iskandarnama, couplets from chapter nine: In considering proper advice from the Makhzan al-asrar, and couplets from Khusraw u Shirin; two columns, fourteen lines of text, headings in gold, red, and blue.
- Border: The text is set in gold, blue, and black rulings with a turquoise floral scroll inner frame and an outer frame of gold floral scroll on blue paper with floral geometric motifs and marginal medallions.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Credit Line
- The Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1513
- Period
- Safavid period
- Accession Number
- S1997.106
- Calligrapher
- Sultan Muhammad Nur (fl. as early as 1494)
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Manuscript
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 23.4 x 16 cm (9 3/16 x 6 5/16 in)
- Origin
- Herat, Afghanistan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- Safavid period (1501 - 1722)
- Khamsa
- nasta'liq script
- illumination
- Afghanistan
- Iran
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Record ID
- fsg_S1997.106
