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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
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Illuminated page (verso), from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al- Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492) with two Persian masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)
1603–7
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Provenance
Publicbefore 1923
Georges Demotte [1877–1923], Paris, France, and New York, NY
1940s
French private collection
October 18, 1994
(Christie's, London, England, Islamic Art, Indian Miniatures, October 18, 1994 sale, lot 9)
1994–2013
Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection
2013-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
Georges Demotte [1877–1923], Paris, France, and New York, NY French private collection (Christie's, London, England, Islamic Art, Indian Miniatures, October 18, 1994 sale, lot 9) Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Sourced Overview Evidence
This section of text from Jami’s poem of Joseph and Zulaykha, written diagonally in the margins, describes the beauties of Zulaykha’s house, in which she intends to seduce Joseph. It includes the following verses: Jeweled lamps on the walls were hung / And odorous herbs were beneath them flung. / She gathered together all things most fair, / And unrolled the carpet of pleasure there. / But amid the charms of the sumptuous hall / She longed only for Joseph, far dearer than all. / A heavenly palace is dark and dim / To a lover whose darling is far from him. <br><br>The longing of Zulaykha for Joseph metaphorically describes an imperfect devotee’s mystical love for God. With patience, forbearance, and virtuous actions, unification with the divine will eventually occur, even for the most flawed among us. On this page also begins the <em>Khirad-nama-i Iskandari</em> (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom), another of the five narrative poems that make up the <em>Panj Ganj</em>.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.
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