The collections of the Royal Asiatic Society hold an illustrated pilgrimage scroll apparently dating from the first half of the nineteenth century. The scroll's hand painted images relate to the journey that a pious Shiʿi Muslim would have undertaken after the performance of the pilgrimage to Mecca. Its visual narrative continues, first to Medina and then to the Shiʿi sanctuaries in present-day Iraq, concluding in the Iranian city of Mashhad at the sanctuary of the eighth imam of the Twelver-Shiʿi creed, imam Riḍā (d. 818). The scroll was likely prepared in the early nineteenth century and acquired by the Royal Asiatic Society from its unknown previous owner sometime after 1857. In terms of chronology the pilgrimage scroll fits neatly into the period between the Niebuhr scroll, bought in Karbala in 1765, and a lithographed item most likely dating from the latter half of the nineteenth century, both of which depict a corresponding journey. The present essay's initial survey of the scroll's visual dimension, by Ulrich Marzolph, adds hitherto unknown details to the history of similar objects. The concluding report, by Mathilde Renauld, sheds light on the scroll's material condition and the difficulties encountered during the object's conservation and their solution.

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皇家亚洲学会收藏的什叶派朝圣画卷

皇家亚洲学会的藏品中有一幅画卷，显然可以追溯到 19 世纪上半叶。卷轴上的手绘图像与虔诚的什叶派穆斯林在麦加朝圣后的旅程有关。它的视觉叙事仍在继续，首先是麦地那，然后是当今伊拉克的什叶派圣地，最后在伊朗城市马什哈德的十二什叶派教义的第八位伊玛目伊玛目 Riḍā（卒于 818 年）的圣地结束。该卷轴可能是在 19 世纪初准备的，并在 1857 年之后的某个时候由皇家亚洲学会从其未知的前任所有者那里获得。就年代学而言，朝圣卷轴与 1765 年在卡尔巴拉购买的尼布尔卷轴之间的时期很吻合。以及一件最有可能追溯到 19 世纪下半叶的平版印刷物品，两者都描绘了相应的旅程。乌尔里希·马佐尔夫 (Ulrich Marzolph) 撰写的这篇文章对卷轴的视觉维度进行了初步调查，为类似物体的历史增添了迄今为止未知的细节。Mathilde Renauld 的总结报告阐明了卷轴的物质状况以及在该物体的保存和解决过程中遇到的困难。