KAMAL AL-DIN WAHSHI BAQFI (D.1583): FARHAD WA SHIRIN

QAJAR IRAN, MID 19TH CENTURY

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KAMAL AL-DIN WAHSHI BAQFI (D.1583): FARHAD WA SHIRIN
QAJAR IRAN, MID 19TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on paper, 84ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of black shikasteh arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, text panels outlined in black, blue and gold, catchwords, headings in white on gold ground surrounded by illuminated panels, text with 6 contemporaneous paintings, opening folio with text in clouds reserved against gold ground and with gold illuminated margins, the first folio with gold and polychrome headpiece surmounting text, preceding folio with later owner's note, areas of staining, tightly bound, in later European green morocco with restored brown borders, tan morocco doublures
Text panel 3 3/8 x 1¾in. (9 x 4.2cm.); folio 4 7/8 x 3in. (12.3 x 7.9cm.)

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The paintings in this manuscript include:
1. Shirin goes to Mount Bisutun
2. Shirin and Farhad meet
3. Shirin and her companions host festivities in the countryside
4. Farhad carries Shirin on her dead horse
5. Farhad shows Shirin the completed sculpture

QAJAR IRAN, MID 19TH CENTURY

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