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Firdawsi's "Shahnama": Dara Enthroned Receiving the Crown Brought by his Mother, Humai
Firdawsi's "Shahnama": Dara Enthroned Receiving the Crown Brought by his Mother, Humai

Firdawsi's "Shahnama": Dara Enthroned Receiving the Crown Brought by his Mother, Humai

Qivam al-Din Hasan of Shiraz
early 16th century
Object PlaceIran
Medium/TechniqueInk, color, and gold on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 31.8 × 21.9 cm (12 1/2 × 8 5/8 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.603
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)

NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).
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Qivam al-Din Hasan of Shiraz
1341
Seated Dervish
Mu'in ad-Din
late 16th century
Leather binding
'Abdallah ibn Ahmad ibn Fadlallah ibn 'Abd al-Hamid al-Qadi al-Qazvini
1339 A.D./ 739 A.H.
Volume 13
'Abdallah ibn Ahmad ibn Fadlallah ibn 'Abd al-Hamid al-Qadi al-Qazvini
1338 A.D./ 739 A.H.
Page with calligraphy, Sura 20:4-8 of the Qur'an
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late 13th-14th century
Page with illuminated calligraphy
al-Sayyid Meḥmed Şeref bin ‘Abdu’r-Raḥīm Fá’iz
18th century
Page from a Qur'an manuscript
Muḥammad ibn al-Waḥīd
about 1306–1311