[Painted manuscript leaves]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Iran?]
Language: per
Subjects: Persian poetry; Persian Manuscripts
Description: Two manuscript leaves which have been pasted onto card and painted on the reverse, likely for sale as miniatures to tourists.
Notes: Manuscript leaves.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Modern foliation added, beginning with 10 (f. 10-11).

Layout: 15 lines in two columns.

Script: Written in nasta'līq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration : Two simple paintings in opaque watercolor. Each painting is of a person in pink garb on a green, hilly background with blue sky. One person is bald, standing, wearing sandals, a green cloak and a rope belt with two objects hanging from it holding a staff. The other is wearing a brown cloak and shoes and a white turban with a feather in it, holding a finger bowl and is seated next to a flask.

Origin: Items are undated, but likely created in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 152b.

Two unrelated manuscripts previously housed with this item have been separately cataloged as MS Or 152a and MS Or 152c.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian.

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