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Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)

Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)

c. 1444
(1370-1501)
opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Overall: 32.7 x 22 cm (12 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1956.10.b
Location: not on view

Description

This text page is the first page of a Shahnama manuscript with an illuminated heading containing the basmala ("In the name of Allah, etc.") followed by the text of the preface to the Shahnama.
  • by 1914
    Philipp Walter Schulz [1864-1920], Leipzig, Germany
    ?-1956
    (Adrienne Minassian [1913-1994], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1956-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: cat. no. 722 archive.org
    Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. Reproduced: no. 45, p. 350 www.jstor.org
  • Persian Miniature Manuscripts. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (August 13-September 11, 1977).
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