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Collections

Yusuf, After His Ordeal in the Pit, Page from the Manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jamicirca 1560

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Persian manuscript painting, six figures in a flowering garden with blossoming trees and a golden hillside, exchanging cloth or garments

Unknown, Yusuf, After His Ordeal in the Pit, Page from the Manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami, circa 1560, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Yusuf, After His Ordeal in the Pit, Page from the Manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami
Place Made
Uzbekistan, Bukhara
Date Made
circa 1560
Medium
Ink, opaque watercolors and gold on paper
Dimensions
7 3/16 x 4 3/8 in. (18.10 x 11.11 cm)
Credit Line
The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky
Accession Number
M.73.5.443
Classification
Manuscripts
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Selected Bibliography
  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed. Islamic Art: The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection. Los Angeles: Museum Associates, 1973.
  • Comstock-Skipp, Jaimee K. "From the Khan to the Sultan: the Abu'l-Khairid Shāhnāma in the Topkapi Palace Library (H.1488) and Manuscript Production and Presentation under 'Abdullah bin Iskandar Khan." Muqarnas 40(2023): 273-314.