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Page from a dispersed manuscript of Jami's Yusuf and Zulaykha
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Description
Luxury copies of celebrated literary texts often featured rich decorative programs, including gold illuminations decorating frontispieces and other areas of the text. Used at times to emphasize specific passages, illuminations are predominantly ornamental and are generally not related to the text. The margins of this page, covered with agile golden brushstrokes, are populated by birds and animals amid lush vegetation, a subject that enjoyed great popularity in the Indo-Persian manuscript tradition for several centuries.
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Details
- Series
- Yusuf and Zulaykha
- Associated place
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Asia › Uzbekistan › Bukhara (place of creation)
- Date
- 1557 - 1558 (AH 964)
- Artist/maker
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Mawlana Nur al-Din ‘Abd al-Rahman Jami (1411 - 1492) (author)Mahmud b. 'Ishaq al Shihabi (active 16th century) (calligrapher)
- Material and technique
- ink, colour, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 15.5 cm approx. (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Christopher T. Gandy, 2012.
- Accession no.
- EA2012.56
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Lure of the East: Selections from the Christopher Gandy Collection
(from 15th Apr until 27th Jul 2014)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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