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Lot Essay
The manuscript includes the anonymous interpolated texts of the Barzu Nama and Bahman Nama
Several figures wears the keçe, the Ottoman Janissary hat, on the double page frontispiece illustration. This feature is shared with another Shahnameh,dated 1576 (unpublished, kept in the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Geneva (CB 513) , where in one folio we see a central figure with keçe hat). This is a highly unusual feature for an Iranian manuscript, and suggests a possible Turkish provenance.
The illustrations are as follows:-
Folio 11r) Gayumarth and his court
Folio 26r) Iraj being slaughtered by Tur
Folio 34v) Zal is brought to Sam by Simurgh
Folio 51r) Rustam kills the white elephant
Folio 93r) Rustam kills Suhrab
Folio 100r) Siyavash's fire ordeal
Folio 115r) Garsivaz being executed by Kay Khusraw
Folio 108r) Kay Khusraw crosses the Jayhun with Farangis and Giv
Folio 115r) Siyavush being slaughtered by Goruy
Folio 164r) Rustam shoots Ashkbus
Folio 195) Rustam rescues Bijan from the pit
Folio 238r) Khusraw wrestle with Shida and kills him
Folio 255v) Kay Khusraw cuts Afrasiyab's head in front of Garsivaz
Folio 291r) Isfandiyar kills the Simurgh
Folio 310v) Rustam shoots arrows in Isfandiyar's eyes
Folio 344r) Rustam kills Shaghad
Folio 382v) Bahman with one of the daughters of Rustam (Bahman Nama) Folio 413r) Borzin slays the dragon which had devoured Bahman
Folio 422r) Alexander has the killers of Dara hanged
The seal impressions at the end belong to:
Seal of Hulagu Mirza dated1233/1817-18.
Hulagu, son of Hasan' Ali Mirza Shuja' al-Saltana and the grand son of Fath 'Ali Shah. An educated prince known by his style of composition, poetry and calligraphy. He left Iran after the death of Fath 'Ali Shah and died in Baghdad in 1271/1854-5.
Baha' al-Din Muhammad dated 1222
Bahram son of Sulayman 1229
Several figures wears the keçe, the Ottoman Janissary hat, on the double page frontispiece illustration. This feature is shared with another Shahnameh,dated 1576 (unpublished, kept in the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Geneva (CB 513) , where in one folio we see a central figure with keçe hat). This is a highly unusual feature for an Iranian manuscript, and suggests a possible Turkish provenance.
The illustrations are as follows:-
Folio 11r) Gayumarth and his court
Folio 26r) Iraj being slaughtered by Tur
Folio 34v) Zal is brought to Sam by Simurgh
Folio 51r) Rustam kills the white elephant
Folio 93r) Rustam kills Suhrab
Folio 100r) Siyavash's fire ordeal
Folio 115r) Garsivaz being executed by Kay Khusraw
Folio 108r) Kay Khusraw crosses the Jayhun with Farangis and Giv
Folio 115r) Siyavush being slaughtered by Goruy
Folio 164r) Rustam shoots Ashkbus
Folio 195) Rustam rescues Bijan from the pit
Folio 238r) Khusraw wrestle with Shida and kills him
Folio 255v) Kay Khusraw cuts Afrasiyab's head in front of Garsivaz
Folio 291r) Isfandiyar kills the Simurgh
Folio 310v) Rustam shoots arrows in Isfandiyar's eyes
Folio 344r) Rustam kills Shaghad
Folio 382v) Bahman with one of the daughters of Rustam (Bahman Nama) Folio 413r) Borzin slays the dragon which had devoured Bahman
Folio 422r) Alexander has the killers of Dara hanged
The seal impressions at the end belong to:
Seal of Hulagu Mirza dated1233/1817-18.
Hulagu, son of Hasan' Ali Mirza Shuja' al-Saltana and the grand son of Fath 'Ali Shah. An educated prince known by his style of composition, poetry and calligraphy. He left Iran after the death of Fath 'Ali Shah and died in Baghdad in 1271/1854-5.
Baha' al-Din Muhammad dated 1222
Bahram son of Sulayman 1229