Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Divan (collected poems) by Amir Nizam al-Din Shaykh Ahmad Suhayli ; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: flyleaf with the name of the scribe and the date; obliterated seals; verso: sarlawh, two columns, seven lines of text. Border: The text is set in gold, red and blue rulings on an orange colored, gold-sprinkled paper. Flyleaf: "Divan of Suhayli, the writing of Sultan-Ali Mashhadi, large size paper, thirty pieces of borders in dawlatabadi paper, 42 leaves of paper, polychrome and marbleized, gilded with a leather cover...covered in gold, the writing of Sultan-Ali Mashhadi, inspected on the 16th of the month of Jumada II, in the year [A.H.] 1105 [A.D. June 29, 1694]; On 29 Dhu'l-Qa'da in the year [A.H.] 1117 [A.D. April 25, 1705] inspected." Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Authors
- Collection
- Google Cultural Institute Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Date published
- first half 16th century
- Dates
- Timurid and Safavid periods
- Format
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Pages
- H x W: 24.2 x 16.5 cm (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in)
- Place Discussed
- Herat, Afghanistan
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- Afghanistan
- Reference
- S1986.357
- Rights
- Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/07cb57eba6635f2335c0996810a6d05a
