Accession number
MS M.1231
Object title
King Shapur Observing Mani's Flayed Body (leaf from a Shāhnāmah).
Created
Shiraz, Iran, ca. 1570
Credit line
Gift of William M. Voelkle in honor of Barbara Schmitz, 2022.
Description
1 leaf : paper, illuminated ; 375 x 235 mm
Provenance
Barbara Schmitz; bought from her in New York by H.P. Kraus; their sale, New York, Sotheby's, "The Inventory of H.P. Kraus," 4-5 December 2003, lot 345 (as "Indian Miniature"); bought by William M. Voelkle (his WMV MS 9).
Notes
Full-page miniature (188 x 168 mm); text in four columns (235 x 127 mm)
Ms. leaf written and illuminated ca. 1570. Border outlined in gold, blue and red rules of interlaced flowering scrolls with animals and birds in two shades of gold.
This single leaf from a sixteenth-century copy of Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah is the earliest example of this important text in the collection. The subject of the miniature is quite rare; it is not included in the two late copies of this text in the Morgan (MSS M.540 and H.9). For other examples see the "Shahnama Project," an online database undertaken by the Cambridge Shahnama Centre for Persian Studies: http://persian.pem.cam.ac.uk/projects/shahnama-project
Ms. leaf written and illuminated ca. 1570. Border outlined in gold, blue and red rules of interlaced flowering scrolls with animals and birds in two shades of gold.
This single leaf from a sixteenth-century copy of Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah is the earliest example of this important text in the collection. The subject of the miniature is quite rare; it is not included in the two late copies of this text in the Morgan (MSS M.540 and H.9). For other examples see the "Shahnama Project," an online database undertaken by the Cambridge Shahnama Centre for Persian Studies: http://persian.pem.cam.ac.uk/projects/shahnama-project
Language
Persian
Century
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