Description of Columbia University. MS Or 152b: Painted manuscript leaves. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 152b: Painted manuscript leaves. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 152b: Painted manuscript leaves.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Manuscript leaves. Title supplied by cataloger. 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. Two unrelated manuscripts previously housed with this item have been separately cataloged as MS Or 152a and MS Or 152c. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 152b 13622992 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1078438698 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_152b.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13622992 Two manuscript leaves which have been pasted onto card and painted on the reverse, likely for sale as miniatures to tourists. Persian Painted manuscript leaves. former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 10r [Painted manuscript leaves].

paper reinforced by card

 2 leaves : 218 x 140 (62 x 88) mm Modern foliation added, beginning with 10 (f. 10-11). 15 lines in two columns. Written in nasta'līq in black ink; pointed. Painting Painting

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

between 1850 and 1950? Iran? Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Persian poetry Manuscripts, Persian Miniatures (paintings) Poems Detached leaves Manuscripts