Accession number
MS H.9
Object title
Shāhnāma.
Display Date
between 1852 and 1856.
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 line
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.
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
nastaʻlīq
Language
Persian
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