Iranian Art, 1940

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0337

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1940

Extent

8 Cards : Les Arts de l'Iran l'Ancienne Perse & Bagdad: 8 reproductions en couleurs de miniatures décorant les principaux manuscrits iraniens du Département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Seven postcards, hand-painted in pastels and gold with folder cover, copies of work of the Bagdad school of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries--and an extra cover and three postcards from other Persian collections.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Who finds hand-painted postcards?

Les deux héros, Kalílah et Dimnah," Arabe 3465, fol. 48

Kalílah et Dimnah s'entretenant," Arabe 3647, fol. 21. One of my favorites in this set.

Dimnah et le boeuf Shanzabeh conversant," Arabe 3465, fol. 62

Le Lion tuant le boeuf Shanzabeh," Arabe 3647, fol.40. One of my favorites in this set.

L'oiseleur vient prendre dans son filet les colombes captives," Arabe 3465. fol. 84

Conseil des Corbeaux," Arabe 3465, fol. 95

Les corbeaux mettent le feu chez les chouettes," Arabe 3647, fol.78