Folio Illustration from the Sarre Qazwini (reversed image): The Sea of Zanzibar, Saksar Island, The Soft-Legged People (FGA 54.64V)

Object Details

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Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection Citation: Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946.

Arrangement: Glass Negatives, numbered from 1 to 5,066, without any apparent organization, are housed in document boxes and stored on shelves.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Scope and Contents: - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.13: Photo File 13 (3 vols.) "Miscellaneous, Shah's Museum and related objects," Subseries 4.13.3: Vol. 3, Image No. 23 (Negative Number: 5005): Qazwīnī Manuscript, 14th c., Jīnni attacking man. Sarre Collection."; - Additional information from Julie Badiee's dissertation reads, "The Sarre Qazwīnī. This copy of the cosmography is presently divided between the Freer Gallery of Art and the New York Public Library. The manuscript lacks a colophon, and its miniatures, which are executed in a fine though hybrid style, have been the subject of considerable scholarly debate. Friedrich Sarre was the first to publish the manuscript. In an article appearing in 1907 which discussed the illustrations of the seven planets, he considered the work to be probably fifteenth century. Later he assigned it to Iran. [...]. When the manuscript appeared in the Burlington House Exhibition of 1931 its archaic character was recognized and it became known as a manuscript of the "Mesopotamian style." The most recent research has led to the latest consensus, which places the manuscript in Jalayirid Iraq." [Julie Badiee, "An Islamic Cosmography: The Illustrations of the Sarre Qazwīnī," The University of Michigan, 1978]