ABU'L QASIM FIRDAWSI (D. AH 416/1025 AD): SHAHNAMA

SIGNED MUHAMMAD JURPADAQANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 6 SHAWWAL AH 1020/12 DECEMBER 1611 AD

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ABU'L QASIM FIRDAWSI (D. AH 416/1025 AD): SHAHNAMA
SIGNED MUHAMMAD JURPADAQANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 6 SHAWWAL AH 1020/12 DECEMBER 1611 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on buff paper, 174ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 21ll. of black nasta'liq divided into four columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, catchwords, headings in red nasta'liq, with eighty-four contemporaneous paintings, the opening bifolio with the text in clouds reserved against gold, the margins with possibly later gold and polychrome floral scrolls, first folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, colophon signed Muhammad Jurpadaqani and dated Friday 6 Shawwal 1030, fly-leaves with later owner's notes, some repairs to the margins and areas of scuffing, in later brown morocco with marbled paper doublures
Text panel 11 x 6 1/8in. (28 x 15.6cm.); folio 14¾ x 9¼in. (37.5 x 23.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

Jurpadaqan, as is mentioned in the nisba of our scribe's name, is the Arabic name for Golpayegan, a town near Isfahan. The expressive stylised rock forms depicted in this manuscript are similar to a manuscript attributed to Isfahan and dated to 1604 in the collection of the India Office Library, (B. W. Robinson, Persian Paintings in the India Office Library, London 1976, no. 1038, p. 202). For a further manuscript with illustrations in the Isfahan style see lot 13.

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