Description of Columbia University MS Or 405 - GREY BOX: Two Persian miniatures Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 405 - GREY BOX: Two Persian miniatures 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 405 - GREY BOX: Two Persian miniatures. 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. Note in English describing the leaves pasted to verso of first leaf. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 405 - GREY BOX 14634252 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1144954231 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_405.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14634252 Two miniatures both taken from the same manuscript, possibly one of the Naṣīḥatnāmah. The first miniature (dimensions 148 x 110 mm) depicts the king talking to a standing figure while four other figures sit in waiting. The second miniature (dimensions 120 x 115 mm) from chapter 13 of the text (on avoiding people who betray others) depicts the king conversing with a kneeling person in green while a second kneeling person in orange turns to say something to the two men standing behind him. Persian Two Persian miniatures former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [1]r [Two Persian miniatures].

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 2 unfoliated leaves : 340 x 187 (252 x 115) mm Written in 19 long lines. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Textblock border-ruled in beige, black, red, blue with page-opening frame-rule in blue; rubrications in red; half-page illustrations in pastel colors (f. 1r, 2r). Illustration Illustration

The item is undated; perhaps produced in India in the 19th century.

18--? India? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. ("David Eugene Smith Library" stamp on verso.) Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic--Specimens Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York Manuscripts (documents) Miniatures (paintings) Detached leaves