Folio from a Divan (Collected poems) by Sultan Ahmad Jalayir (d.1410); recto:text; verso: text

FS-7905_24

Folio from a Divan (Collected poems) by Sultan Ahmad Jalayir (d.1410); recto:text; verso: text

Ink, color and gold on paper

H x W: 29.4 x 20.4 cm (11 9/16 x 8 1/16 in)

Dr. Jacob Hirsch (1874?-1955)

To 1932

Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York to 1932 [1]

From 1932

Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York in 1932 [2]

Notes:

[1] Object file, undated folder sheet note.

[2] See note 1. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office. For further information in connection with this purchase see letter to Dr. Hirsch written by M. Aga-Oglu, January 4, 1932, Letter File (Hirsch).

Baghdad, Iraq

Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

ca.1400

Mongol period

Manuscript

Jalayirid dynasty (1340 - 1432)

nasta'liq script

Mongol period (1220 - 1380)

Iraq

divan

Arts of the Islamic World

Smithsonian Institution