(Q56677)
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Firdawsī
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Headpieces (layout features)--Iran--Shīrāz--16th century
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Miniatures (Illuminations)--Iran--Shīrāz--16th century
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Manuscripts, Persian--Iran--Shīrāz--16th century
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Illuminated manuscripts--Iran--Shīrāz--16th century
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1589 or 90
16. century
1589
1590
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Extent: 475 leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 476 x 335 mm.
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Ms. codex.
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Text begins on fol. 12b.
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Includes 51 miniatures; handlist of their description by Louise Marlow on file.
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Physical description: 29 lines per page, in four columns; written in nastaʻliq on glazed paper. Volume measures 47.6 x 33.5 cm; written surface, 30 x 16.5 cm. Catchwords; some marginal notations. Some leaves have been repaired at edges. In excellent condition.
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Decoration: Text framed in silver, red, gold, black and orange; columns separated by gold bands containing floral pattern. Text on gilt is in white; some marginal notes in red. Illuminated caption bands throughout text. Title page, following page and first page of text are elaborately illuminated. 51 miniatures by an artist of the Shīrāz school illustrate famous events of the epic. Six of...
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Origin: Copied by Qiwām ibn Muḥammad Shīrāzī in 998 H [1589 or 90] (fol. 474a); likely produced in Shīrāz.
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Inscription of ownership on f. 475b of Khayrāt Khān, envoy from ʻAbd Allāh Quṭbshāh to Iṣfahān, who purchased the ms. from the daughter of Khān Aḥmad Khān of Gīlān and widow of Shāh ʻAbbās in Rajab 1040H (February 1631). The ms. was later owned by Sir George Holford, equerry to George V, and likely purchased by A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1925. The ms. was subsequently sold to Clara Peck by...
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11 November 2024
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11 November 2024
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