25.2015.31: Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 31), from a manuscript of Prayers
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 25.2015.31
- Title
- Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 31), from a manuscript of Prayers
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Manuscript of prayers
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- dated 1713
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Safavid period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/368788
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink, colors, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 x 13 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar
- Object Number
- 25.2015.31
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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The thin and small manuscript of 34 folios opens with a beautiful illuminated sarlawh. The original Arabic text is copied in naskh in black ink, with interlinear translation into Persian in small red thulth on floral gold drawings. According to the colophon it was copied by Ahmad al-Nayrizi in 1125 H (1713) in Isfahan.
Ahmad b. Shams al-Din Muhammad Nayrizi (or Neyrizi) (fl. 1096-1152) was one of the greatest calligraphers of the late Safavid period, and the master of naskh and thulth. He canonized a distinct form of naskh script, known as Persian Naskh. Originally from Nayriz of Fars, he moved to Isfahan at the summon of the last Safavid ruler, Sultan Husayn where he resided from 1100 to 1134.
The binding is covered with a blue cloth on the outside and plain paper on the inside.
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