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Lot Essay
The miniatures include:
Leila and Majnun at school
Prince Khusrau visiting the palace of Shirin
Iskander comforting the dying Dara
Fitna carrying the ox upstairs
This manuscript can be dated to the first five years of the Safavid period on the basis of the strongly Turkman style of painting, and the early type of turban. A Bustan of Sa'di in the Bodleian (MS.Marsh 517) has a parallel for this. (Robinson, B.W.: A descriptive catalogue of the Persian Paintings in the Bodleian Library, pp.82-83). A further unusual feature is the use of mother-of-pearl to highlight flagpoles, doors and windows; this is also to be found in a Nizami in the Bodleian library dated 1504 (MS.Pers.d.105, Robinson, op.cit).
Tabriz fell to the Turks four times, after the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514. Sulayman the Magnificent took the city in 1534, 1538 and 1548, and no doubt it was on one of these occasions that the manuscript entered the Imperial library.
Leila and Majnun at school
Prince Khusrau visiting the palace of Shirin
Iskander comforting the dying Dara
Fitna carrying the ox upstairs
This manuscript can be dated to the first five years of the Safavid period on the basis of the strongly Turkman style of painting, and the early type of turban. A Bustan of Sa'di in the Bodleian (MS.Marsh 517) has a parallel for this. (Robinson, B.W.: A descriptive catalogue of the Persian Paintings in the Bodleian Library, pp.82-83). A further unusual feature is the use of mother-of-pearl to highlight flagpoles, doors and windows; this is also to be found in a Nizami in the Bodleian library dated 1504 (MS.Pers.d.105, Robinson, op.cit).
Tabriz fell to the Turks four times, after the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514. Sulayman the Magnificent took the city in 1534, 1538 and 1548, and no doubt it was on one of these occasions that the manuscript entered the Imperial library.