The Prophet's Ascension to Heaven, illustration, manuscript fragment

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Description

Title: The Prophet's Ascension to Heaven, illustration, manuscript fragment
Creator: From the Collection: Ege, Otto F.
Published / Created: 1406
Description: Persia. MS on vellum, full-page miniature of “Mohammed’s Ascent to Heaven”, the faces blank, 205 x 140 mm. (C.M.A. No. TR12828/21)
Provenance: Purchased from John M. Freudenheim, Tom Freudenheim, Jo Freudenheim, Susan Core, Richard Core, and Michael Frisch, via JSJT Holdings, LLC, 2015-2018, with Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, and the John W. Corwith Memorial Fund., Except as noted below the material was maintained by Ege’s heirs. Most of the manuscript volumes in Series I and several single manuscript leaves in Series III were previously on deposit with the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). These items are noted in the inventory with CMA numbers, for example “TR12333/2”. A few items were previously on deposit with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, before they were gifted to or purchased by the Beinecke in 2016.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Algonquian (Other)
Dutch
English
French
Hebrew
Italian
Latin
Persian
Slavic (Other)
Spanish
Syriac, Modern
Turkish

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 1498

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Container / Volume

Box 98, folder 4

Access: Public
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Citation: Otto F. Ege Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.