Accession number:
MS H.9
Title:
Shāhnāma.
Created:
Probably Shīrāz, Iran, between 1852 and 1856.
Binding:
19th-century lacquer, in the Qajar style, with floral motifs (outside and inside), and borders (outside only) containing verse from the Koran in Arabic Thuluth script.
Credit:
Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description:
593 leaves (4 columns, 25 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 361 x 240 mm
Provenance:
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1962.
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated, probably in Shīrāz, between 1852 and 1856.
Scribe: ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusain al-Kātib al-Shīrāzi.
Decoration: 5 miniatures, 2 elaborate headpieces, 2 elaborate borders, 59 borders with gold floral designs; numerous spaces left for miniatures and headpieces.
The outside borders only contain verses from the Koran in Arabic Thuluth script.
Artist: Luṭf ʻAlī Khān is the artist of the miniatures on fol. 27r, 31v, 51r, and 86r; the miniature on fol. 190 is by another artist.
Script:
nasta'liq
Language:
Persian
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