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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Text Page, Persian Prose (recto); The Story of Adam peace upon him, his Sons and Progeny (verso)
c. 1425
(1370–1501)
Overall: 42 x 32 cm (16 9/16 x 12 5/8 in.); Text area: 34.5 x 22.7 cm (13 9/16 x 8 15/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.384
Location: not on view
Description
These two pages are from a manuscript that evidently was written and illustrated for the library (at Herat) of the Timurid king Shah Rukh, the son of Timur (Tamerlane). The Majma' al-Tawarikh traced the history of the world, beginning with the prophets of the Old Testament until the reign of Shah Rukh.- ?-1945(Hagop Kevorkian [1872–1962], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1945-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Binyon, L., Wilkinson, J.V.S., and Gray, B., Persian Miniature Painting (London, 1933), no. 28, p. 46, p.46, p.35.Dimand, M.S., A Handbook of Muhammadan Art (New York, 1944), pp. 30-31.Grube, E. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Centuries (Catalogue of the 1962 exhibition), pp. 51-53.
- Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945).International Exhibition of Persian Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (October-December 1926).
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