Sunday, April 24, 2011

Islamic Manuscript Painting at the Morgan

It may be rather early notice, but I just saw that in October the Morgan Library will be hosting another exhibit that sounds very interesting:

Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan
October 21, 2011 through January 29, 2012






An excerpt from the exhibit's description:

Shown for the first time anywhere will be a series of twenty-nine miniatures from the 1590s illustrating the life of Rumi, the celebrated Persian poet and mystic.
Click here for the web page with more info.




Two Elephants. Abu Sa'd' Ubayd-Allah ibn Ibrahim, known as Ibn Bakhtishu Manafi al-Hayawan (Uses of Animals), in Persian, Persia, Maragha, dated 1294, 1297, or 1299. Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912; MS M.500 (fol. 13).

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