Overpainted leaves from a Persian manuscript and an Arabic lithograph, between 1875 and 1975?

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Stanitz, John D., former owner.

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Arabic

Persian

Subjects (All):

Musicians in art.

Arabic language--Grammar.

Genre:

fragments (object portions)

commentaries

illuminations (paintings)

forgeries (derivative objects)

Manuscripts, Persian.

Manuscripts, Digital.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 27.

Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Physical Description:

2 leaves (2 items) : paper ; 265 x 170 mm, 213 x 170 mm

Place of Publication:

between 1875 and 1975?

Language Note:

Persian and Arabic.

Summary:

Leaves, one from a Persian manuscript and the other from an Arabic lithograph, both of uncertain date and origin, each with an illumination overpainted in the 20th century to mimic Mughal style, likely in India for the tourist trade. The leaves themselves are possibly from the late 19th or early 20th century, and the paintings are considerably later. On the Persian leaf, the miniature of a scene of a man kneeling at the mouth of a cave with another man kneeling before him enclosed in a rondel is painted over the text on the page. The other side of this leaf is written in 12 long lines. On the verso of the Arabic leaf, which was page 99 in the volume printed by lithograph, the miniature of a man and woman on a throne on a veranda, surrounded by nine musicians, has been painted over the main text, with the surrounding commentary left visible; the recto of this leaf has 8 lines of main text, with interlinear notes and surrounding commentary in a smaller script. The leaf is from a grammatical work with commentary.

Notes:

Ms. leaves.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 196.

OCLC:

794842362

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page