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The Story of Hushang (recto), Illustration and text (Persian Prose) from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru; Text Page, Persian Prose, (verso), from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru

early 1400s

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Afghanistan, Herat, Timurid period

(1370–1501)

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1931.452

Location

not on view

Description

These two pages are from a manuscript that evidently was written and illustrated for the library (at Herat) of the Timurid king Shah Rukh, the son of Timur (Tamerlane). The Majma' al-Tawarikh traced the history of the world, beginning with the prophets of the Old Testament until the reign of Shah Rukh.

Provenance

?-1931

(Parish-Watson & Co., Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1931-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Persian Art (1931), p. 125, no. 214a.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Mohammedan Decorative Arts (1930) no. 28.

Ettinghausen, Richard. "An Illuminated Manuscript of Hafiz-i Abru in Istanbul," Kunst des Orients II (1955): 30 - 44.

Grube, E. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Centuries (Catalogue of the 1962 exhibition), pp. 51 - 53.

Binyon, L., Wilkinson, J.V.S., and Gray, B., Persian Miniature Painting (London, 1933), no. 28, p. 46.

Dimand, M.S., A Handbook of Muhammadan Art (New York, 1944), pp. 30 - 31.

CMA Bulletin, February 1932. H.C. Hollis, "A Fourteenth Century Persian Miniature," pp. 23 - 35.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 719 archive.org

Exhibition history

International Exhibition of Persian Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (October-December 1926).

Exhibition of Mohammedan Decorative Arts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 21-November 23, 1930). no. 28. [Lent by Parish-Watson and Co., NY]

Parish-Watson, Exhibition of Art Through the Ages and Persian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 31, 1931).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).