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accession number:	1931.452
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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. Afghanistan, Herat, Timurid period (1370–1501). Ink and opaque watercolor on paper; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1931.452

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
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creation date:			early 1400s
creation date earliest:		1400
creation date latest:		1425
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Afghanistan, Herat, Timurid period (1370–1501)
technique:	ink and opaque watercolor on paper
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Manuscript
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>International Exhibition of Persian Art</em>. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (October-December 1926).

* <em>Exhibition of Mohammedan Decorative Arts</em>. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 21-November 23, 1930). no. 28. [Lent by Parish-Watson and Co., NY]

* <em>Parish-Watson, Exhibition of Art Through the Ages and Persian Art</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 31, 1931).

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PROVENANCE

	(Parish-Watson & Co., Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1931
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1931-
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	London, Royal Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Persian Art (1931), p. 125, no. 214a.
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	Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Mohammedan Decorative Arts (1930) no. 28.
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	Ettinghausen, Richard. "An Illuminated Manuscript of Hafiz-i Abru in Istanbul," Kunst des Orients II (1955): 30 - 44.
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	Grube, E. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Centuries (Catalogue of the 1962 exhibition), pp. 51 - 53.
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	Binyon, L., Wilkinson, J.V.S., and Gray, B., Persian Miniature Painting (London, 1933), no. 28, p. 46.
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	Dimand, M.S., A Handbook of Muhammadan Art (New York, 1944), pp. 30 - 31.
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	CMA Bulletin, February 1932. H.C. Hollis, "A Fourteenth Century Persian Miniature," pp. 23 - 35.
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 719
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n131

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