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Or 12208
- Record Id:
- 032-002800046
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002800046
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023513808.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12208
- 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 38 illustrated folios attributed to the major artists of the imperial Mughal studio. Contains six decorated headings, two signed by Khvājah Jān (ff. 32v, 169r - dated 1004/1595). Copied by ʻAbd al-Rahīm ʻAnbarīn-qalām between 20 Mihr Regnal Year 38 (12 Oct 1593, f. 109r) and 24 Azar Regnal Year 40 (14 December 1595, f. 325v). Contains six illuminated headings (ff. 1v, 32v, 110v, 169v, 231v, 285v) and eight shamsas (ff. 1r, 31v, 32r, 110r, 168v, 169r, 231r, 285r). An additional 39 leaves from this manuscript are preserved at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (MS W.613)
Consists of:
Or 12208, ff 1v-31r : Makhzan al-asrār
Or 12208, ff 32v-109v: Khusraw u Shīrīn
Or 12208, ff 110v-168r : Laylā u Majnūn
Or 12208, ff 169v-230v: Haft paykar
Or 12208, ff 231v-325v: Iskandarnāmah
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002800046
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002800046
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 325 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12208 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1593
- End Date:
- 1595
- Date Range:
- 1593-1595
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: Leaf 318 x 196 mm
Script: Nastaʻliq in 4 columns, 21 lines to a page
Decorations: One double and 37 single paintings; Contains six headings and eight shamsas
Binding: Original lacquered binding with chinoiserie decorated doublures and portraits of Akbar hunting, now in reversed order
- Custodial History:
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Passed from the Mughal Emperor Akbar to his son Jahangir
Purchased in 1909 by C W Dyson-Perrins
- Source of Acquisition:
- Bequeathed by C.W. Dyson-Perrins to the British Museum in 1958
- Publications:
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G. M. Meredith-Owens, Handlist of Persian Manuscripts [Acquired by the British Museum] 1895-1966. London, 1968, p. 75
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, pp. 142-3
Barbara Brend, The Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Nizami. London, 1995
J. P. Losty, The Art of the Book in India. London, 1982, no. 65, pp. 90-91
- Exhibitions:
- Writing: Making Your Mark, British Library, 26 April 2019 - 27 August 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)