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Or 6810
- Record Id:
- 032-002748654
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002748654
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022705288.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 6810
- Title:
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khamsah
- Scope & Content:
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The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3), containing one double and 20 single miniatures in the Herat later Timurid style. The attributions to various artists beneath the lower margins of the miniatures were added later but the miniatures on ff. 37v, 135v, 190r, 214r, 225v,and 273r are considered to be possibly the work of Bihzād. One of the paintings (f 284r) is clearly dated 900 AH (1494/95). The history of the manuscript is documented with more than 70 inscriptions and seal impressions dating from 1564/65 to 1782.
Illustrations:
(1v-2r) The manuscript possibly being presented to Sulṭān Mīrzā Barlās, ruler of Samarkand. Ascribed to Mīrak Khurasānī. The patron holds a piece of paper which appears to have the name ʻAlī Fārsī on it – in addition to further inscriptions which have not yet been deciphered.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002748654
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 6810, ff 3v-29r : Makhzan al-asrār
Or 6810, ff 30v-97v : Khusraw u Shīrīn
Or 6810, ff 98v-146v : Laylā u Majnūn
Or 6810, ff 147v-198v : Haft paykar
Or 6810, ff 199v-303r : Iskandarnāmah. Beginning in this copy with the Khiradnāmah (ff 199v-234v)
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- 032-002748654
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 6810
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 303 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6810 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Not Applicable
- Start Date:
- 1490
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1490-1499
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: Leaf 170mm x 243mm
Script: Nastaʻliq; 25 lines to a page in 4 columns
Decorations: One double and 20 single paintings which are numbered 1-22; ruled margins; shamsah (f 3r) and 6 illuminated headings
Binding: European brown leather binding with gold tooled margins
- Custodial History:
- Originally created for Amīr ʻAlī Fārsī Barlās (f 62v). Gift of Khvudā Qulī Tāliqānī (f 1r) at Agra in 972 (1564/65), presumably to Muʻnim Khān (d. 1575) from whose estate it passed to Akbar (f 1r) who had it with him in Srinagar in 1597. Subsequently belonged to Jahangir, Shah Jahan (their inscriptions on f 3r), and Awrangzeb. Acquired by Richard Johnson 17 December 1782. Purchased by the British Museum from the Tabbagh Brothers, 27 Feb 1908.
- Publications:
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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. 141.
F. R. Martin, T. W. Arnold, The Nizami Ms., Illuminated by Bihzad, Mirak and Qasim Ali, Written 1495 for Sultan Ali Mirza Barlās, Ruler of Samarquand, in the British Museum (Or. 6810) (Vienna, 1926).
John Seyller, "The Inspection and Valuation of Manuscripts in the Imperial Mughal library”, Artibus Asiae 57 no 3/4 (1997), pp. 243-349.
- Exhibitions:
- Epic Iran, V&A, London, 29 May 2021 - 12 September 2021
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)