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Folio from Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān (Advantages Derived from Animals) by Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ (d. 1058)
Ilkhanid period
about 1300
Object Place: Maragheh, Iran
Medium/Technique
Ink and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 25.8 × 18 cm (10 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Hervey Edward Wetzel Fund
Accession Number23.232
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CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
This is a single page from a Persian translation of Ibn Bakhtishu's Manafi' al-Hayawan (Advantages Derived from Animals), an eleventh-century Arabic treatise on animals and the medicinal uses of various parts of their bodies. The text was translated into Persian in the late thirteenth century, for the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan (reigned 1295–1304).
DescriptionSingle folio from a dispersed copy of the Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān (Advantages Derived from Animals) by Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ. Recto: ten lines of Persian calligraphy in black and red naskh script; chapter heading in large, dark blue kufic script. Verso: thirteen lines of Persian calligraphy in black and red naskh script. Text panels framed by red double rulings.
ProvenanceBy 1923, Dikran G. Kelekian (dealer), New York; 1923, sold by Kelekian to the MFA for $1,500 [see note]. (Accession date: May 3, 1923)
NOTE:
Total purchase price from 23.232-233.
NOTE:
Total purchase price from 23.232-233.