Pre-Mughal School Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Khamsa (Quintet) by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi, text: Persian in black nasta'liq script with red heading; recto: illustration and text: A couple converse, four columns, thirteen lines; verso: text, four columns, twenty lines; one of a group of seven folios. The folio has been pasted together with pieces taken from another part of the manuscript. Border: Text is within a border of colored panels. Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Authors
- Collection
- Google Cultural Institute Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Date published
- ca. 1450 or earlier
- Dates
- Delhi Sultanate period
- Format
- Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- Pages
- H x W (overall): 33.5 x 25.3 cm (13 3/16 x 9 15/16 in)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- S1986.121a-b
- 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/6134f44147ffe7ff91a044400cdc8e67
