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Record Id:

032-002094340

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002094340

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 16561

Title:

Shamākhī anthology

Scope & Content:

A collection of poetry by 12 different authors of the 14th and 15th century. It was copied in 1468 in the capital city Shirvan in present day Azerbayjan by Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥusayn, a royal scribe, possibly at the court of the Shirvānshāh Farrukh Yasar (1462-1501). The manuscript contains one double-page (ff. 1v and 2r) and seven single miniatures, north provincial Timurid style. The Chinese imported paper is highly polished and dyed different shades of pink, mauve and yellow/green, decorated with large flecks of gold.

Contents:

(1) Kamāl Khujandī, Dīvān (ff. 2v-6r);
(2) Ḥāfiẓ, Dīvān (ff. 6v-13r);
(3) Amīr Khusraw, Dīvān (ff. 13v-23r);
(4) Kātibī Turshīzī, Dīvān (ff. 23v-41r);
(5) Mawlānā Ashraf, Dīvān (ff. 41v-50r);
(6) Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī, Dīvān (ff. 50v-57r);
(7) Nāṣir, Dīvān (ff. 57v-62r);
(8) Mawlānā Bisāṭī, Dīvān (ff. 62v-67v);
(9) Khayālī, Dīvān (ff. 68r-74r);
(10) Jāmī, Dīvān (ff. 74v-80r);
(11) Ṭūsī, Dīvān (ff. 80v-86r);
(12) Ṭāliʻī, Dīvān (ff. 86v-89r)

Miniature: ff. 1v-2r: Prince entertained in a garden

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

ff. 89

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Languages:

Persian

Scripts:

Arabic
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Start Date:

1468

End Date:

1468

Date Range:

1468

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Chinese paper

Dimensions: 229 x 127 mm leaf

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: 17 lines per page in 2 columns

Script: Nastaʻlīq; copyist Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥusayn Sulṭānī

Ink: Black ink, with headings in white, gold, blue and red

Decoration: Illuminated title page with central rosette (shamsah); eleven illuminated openings ; tinted, glazed and gold-sprinkled paper; ruled margins in gold, ; nine miniature paintings

Binding: Islamic binding; dark leather stamped central medallion and corners outlined in gold, gold borders; brown leather doublure with central blue and gold decorated medallion and corners, outlined in gold, gold rope patterned borders

Seals: small oval seal (f1v)

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Thomas Rodd, 9 January 1847

Administrative Context:

Copied at Shamākhī (Shīrvān), beginning of Rabīʻ II, 873 (Oct. 1468)

Finding Aids:

Ch. Rieu, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1879-1883), p. 734.

Norah M. Titley, Miniatures from Persian Manuscripts: a Catalogue and Subject Index of Paintings from Persia, India and Turkey in the British Library and the British Museum (London, 1977), p. 38.

Exhibitions:

Gold, British Library, London, 20 May 2022 - 2 October 2022
Ming: Courts and Contacts, The British Museum, London, 18 September 2014 - 5 January 2015

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Persian, 1468. Exhibited: Ming: Courts and Contacts, The British Museum, London, 18 September 2014 - 5 January 2015