The Story of Hushang (recto), Illustration and text (Persian Prose) from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru; Text Page, Persian Prose, (verso), from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A C

The Story of Hushang (recto), Illustration and text (Persian Prose) from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru; Text Page, Persian Prose, (verso), from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru (early 1400s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

These two pages are from a manuscript that evidently was written and illustrated for the library (at Herat) of the Timurid king Shah Rukh, the son of Timur (Tamerlane). The Majma' al-Tawarikh traced the history of the world, beginning with the prophets of the Old Testament until the reign of Shah Rukh.

Object facts

• Title: The Story of Hushang (recto), Illustration and text (Persian Prose) from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru; Text Page, Persian Prose, (verso), from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru
• Date: early 1400s
• Culture: Afghanistan, Herat, Timurid period (1370–1501)
• Type: Manuscript
• Technique: ink and opaque watercolor on paper
• Collection: Islamic Art
• Department: Islamic Art
• Accession number: 1931.452

Collection credit

Dudley P. Allen Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Persian Art (1931), p. 125, no. 214a.
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Mohammedan Decorative Arts (1930) no. 28.
• Ettinghausen, Richard. "An Illuminated Manuscript of Hafiz-i Abru in Istanbul," Kunst des Orients II (1955): 30 - 44.

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