Colophon folio from the Silsilat al-dhahab (Chain of gold) in the Haft awrang (Seven thrones) by Jami (d.1492)

Folio from the Silsilat al-dhahab (Chain of gold) third daftar from the Haft awrang (Seven thrones) by Jami; one of eight colophons from the Haft awrang (F1946.12.46 recto, F1946.12.69 verso, F1946.12.83 verso, F1946.12.139 recto, F1946.12.181 recto, F1946.12.199 recto, F1946.12.224 verso, F1946.12.272 recto); text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: text; illuminated heading in red and blue; gold column dividers; verso: black inscription; seal impression; four columns, twenty-one lines of text; one of a group of 304 folios. Border: The recto and the verso are set in multicolored rulings on a cream ground with gold floral motifs. Colophon: bottom right: "the humble sinful servant, exiled from the regions of power and joy, Malik al-Daylami, served by completing it in the city of Qazvin, after its beginning and the greatest part of it (was done) in the illuminated, holy, sublime, sanctified, purified Mashhad. May the noblest prayers and praises be upon the gardens (tomb) of he who ennobled it (Imam Reza)." Center: In Ramadan the year 966/ June-July 1559. To 1946 Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York. [1] From 1946 Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York. [2] Notes: [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also, Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office. [2] See note 1. Freer Gallery of Art Collection Untitled Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit, 1930 (1930) Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)