THE CALLIGRAPHY BY MURSHID IBN 'IZZ AL-DIN WAZAN, PROBABLY SHIRAZ, TURKMAN IRAN, AH 887 / 1482 AD

Other folios from this Shahnama are in a number of American institutions. This includes three paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, depicting Alexander avenging Darius (acc.no.40.38.1), the death of Rustam (acc.no.40.38.2), and the fire-ordeal of Siyavush (acc.no.45.150). When the first two of these were purchased by the museum in 1940, the then-curator Hannah E McAllister wrote that she had seen the colophon of the manuscript in the collection of Nasli Heeramaneck, and that it bore the name of a scribe - Murshid ibn 'Izz al-Din Wazan - and the date Shawwal AH 887/October 1482 AD. Further folios are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum (acc.no.41.1025) and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington (acc.no.F1940.20). Another folio from this manuscript was sold in these Rooms, 24 October 2024, lot 50.