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

QAJAR IRAN, DATED FRIDAY 8 RAJAB AH 1256/5 SEPTEMBER 1840 AD

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KAMAL AL-DIN WAHSHI BAQFI (D. 1583): FARHAD WA SHIRIN
QAJAR IRAN, DATED FRIDAY 8 RAJAB AH 1256/5 SEPTEMBER 1840 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on ivory paper, 83ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of flowing shikasteh arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, text panels outlined in gold, black and blue, margins with single black outer rule, catchwords, headings in red on gold panels with polychrome illumination, text with 6 contemporaneous paintings, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination surrounding text in clouds reserved against gold ground, the following folio with the text similarly in clouds reserved against gold, colophon dated, first folio loose in binding, in lacquer binding decorated with gul-o-bulbul, the doublures with scenes from the story
Text panel 3 7/8 x 1¼in. (9.3 x 4.1cm.); folio 4¾ x 2 7/8in. (11.8 x 7.3cm.)

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Lot Essay

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. Shirin receives a message from Khusraw's page
6. Farhad shows Shirin the completed sculpture

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