"Yusuf Arriving in Egypt and Leaving the Ship in the Nile", Folio of a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami
A.H. 930/1523–24 CE
Medium
Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
Dimensions
Painting: H. 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm) W. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm) Page: H. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm) W. 6 5/16 in. (16 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm) Joseph arriving in Egypt
Classification
Codices
Department
Islamic Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
Accession Number
13.228.5.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami|Mir 'Ali al-Husaini · 1414–1492
**Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami** (1414–1492) stands as one of the towering figures of Persian literature and Sufi thought during the Timurid era. Born in Kharjerd near Jam in Khorasan (present-day Iran) to a Persian family, he later adopted “Jami” as his pen name. His father, Nizam al-Din Ahmad, a theologian, lawyer, and Sufi, served as his first teacher and mentor. The family soon moved...