Treasures of Herat
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about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127922
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about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320129554
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330133513
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  alternate name: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Timurid
abstract: With this book, Barbara Brend provides thorough consideration of two celebrated Persian manuscripts housed in the British Library. These two copies of the Khamsah (Quintet) a set of five narrative poems by twelfth-century poet Nizami, a master of allegorical poetry in Persian literature, were produced in Herat in the fifteenth century, one of the greatest periods of Persian painting. Although well known, the manuscripts have never before been written about in relation to each other. Brend tells the story of each poem and the painting that illustrates it, and she formally analyses the images, placing them in their historical and artistic context. The images from both highly prized manuscripts are beautifully reproduced in colour, and the ownership history of one of the manuscripts-recorded in the form of seal impressions and inscriptions- is also included. Ursula Sims-Williams provides a translation and commentary of these important marks of ownership which identify the Mughal rulers Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, and Aurangzeb, among many others.
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31015024
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31115427
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31015024
language: eng
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301324521

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