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Calligraphy of a Pious Invocation in Rhyme (verso)

1500s or 1600s

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India, Mughal, 16th century

Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

Page: 34 x 20.7 cm (13 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.)

Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.302.b

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Arabic verses in nasta‘liq script: O Immutable in Your attributes!/ O Gatherer of that which is dispersed!/ You who make plants bloom;/ You who quicken the dead from decayed bones;/ You who send down succor/ From those bowing and kneeling/ To the grieving and sick/ To the hungry and famished/ From the routing and flooding,/ O Creator of the constellations,/ In the seamless heavens/ From the onset of night/ To the brightening of the light of dawn.

Provenance

(Heeramaneck Collection, New York, NY)

The Pan-Asian Collection, New York, NY

Robert Ellsworth [1929–2014], New York, NY

June 20, 1983

(Sotheby’s, London, Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 20 June 1983, lot 65, sold to Ralph and Catherine Benkaim)

1983–2001

Ralph [1914–2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, by descent to his wife, Catherine Benkaim

2001–2013

Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

2013–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Sotheby's London. Fine Oriental Miniatures and Manuscripts. 20 June 1983.

Heeramaneck, Alice N. Masterpieces of Indian Painting: From the Former Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck. [Place of publication not identified]: A.N. Heeramaneck, 1984. cat. no. 168

Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: D Giles Limited, 2016. cat. 27, p. 195

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