Nizami: Khamseh

SAFAVID PERSIA, AH 966/1558-9 AD

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Nizami: Khamseh
Safavid Persia, AH 966/1558-9 AD
Persian manuscript on buff paper, 342ff. as numbered with 21ll. of neat black nasta'liq arranged in four gold-outlined columns, titles in red, blue and gold, five gold and polychrome illuminated title pages, with TWENTY THREE MINIATURES, final folio with colophon signed Khwaja Mir ibn Shams al-Din Muhammad Munshi Astarabadi and dated 966, opening folios lacking, some flaking of paint and light staining, in black morocco binding with stamped decoration
Folio 9¼ x 6¼in. (23.2 x 15.8cm.)

拍品专文

This very interesting and unusual manuscript was done in Astarabad, near the Caspian Sea.
The miniatures are as follows:
1. Anushirvan and the owls
2. Battle between Khusrau and Bahram Chubin
3. Farhad brought before Khusrau
4. Khusrau arriving at Shirin's castle
5. Khusrau and Shirin together
6. Majnun brought in chains to Leila's tent
7. Majnun in the wilderness with the animals
8. Majnun kneeling by Leila's tent
9. Battle scene
10. Bahram Gur with the Moorish princess in the Yellow Pavilion
11. Bahram Gur with the Tartar princess in the Green pavilion
12. Bahram Gur with the Russian princess in the Red Pavilion
13. Unidentified
14. Bahram Gur with the Greek princess in the White Pavilion
15. The Prophet Muhammad on Buraq
16. Iskandar with the Khakan of Chin
17. Iskandar fighting the Zangis
18. Iskandar comforting the dying Dara
19. Iskandar with Nushabeh
20. Unidentified
21. Battle scene
22. Unidentified
23. Court scene