The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
These four leaves come from a dispersed illustrated and illuminated manuscript of Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah (Book of kings), commissioned by Qawām al-Dawlah wa-al-Dīn Ḥasan, vizier to the Inju governor in Fars province. It was copied by Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī in 741 AH / 1341 CE. The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter headings in red, blue, and black taʿlīq script. The dispersal of the manuscript occurred in the early fourteenth century AH / twentieth CE, and over one-half of its leaves are extant and housed in public and private collections. The illuminated folio with the year of the manuscript's completion and a dedication to the patron is housed in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (S1986.110 and S1986.111), and the folio with the colophon and finispiece is housed in the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection (IR.M. 6/I). The manuscript's illustrations have been associated with production in Shiraz. The Walters paintings are as follows: Zāl joins Miḥrāb in battling the Turanians, Battle of the Iranians and the Turanians, Execution of Afrāsiyāb, and Bahrām Gūr in a peasant’s house.
Main text written in black nastaʿlīq script; chapter headings written in red, blue, and black taʿlīq script
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Grube, Ernst J., and Maria Alberta Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), 33-35.
Simpson, Marianna Shreve. "A Reconstruction and Preliminary Account of the 1341 Shahnama with some Further Thoughts on Early Shahnama Illustration." In Persian Painting from the Mongols to the Qajars. Robert Hillenbrand, ed. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000), 215-247.
Binyon, Laurence, J. V. S. Wilkinson, and Basil Gray. Persian Miniature Painting. (London: Oxford University Press, 1933), no. 24.
Stchoukine, Ivan. La Peinture iranienne sous les derniers 'Abbasids et les Il-Khans. (Bruges: Imprimerie Sainte Catherine, 1936), 93-94; no. XIX.
Corbin, Henri et al. Les arts de l'Iran, L'Ancienne Perse et Baghdad (Paris: Bibliotheque nationale, 1938), 21; no. 21.
Robinson, Basil W. et al. The Keir Collection: Islamic Painting and the Arts of the Book. (London: Faber Limited, 1976), 135; nos. III.4-III.5.
Hillenbrand, Robert. Imperial Images in Persian Painting. (Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, 1977), nos. 64, 136-138, 207.
Soudavar, Abolala. Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection (New York: Rizzoli, 1992), 43-44, no. 14.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Iran
Ramaḍān 741 AH / 1341 CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Name: Dikran Kelekian
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
Ramaḍān 741 AH / 1341 CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Name: Dikran Kelekian
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
These four leaves come from a dispersed illustrated and illuminated manuscript of Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah (Book of kings), commissioned by Qawām al-Dawlah wa-al-Dīn Ḥasan, vizier to the Inju governor in Fars province. It was copied by Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī in 741 AH / 1341 CE. The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter headings in red, blue, and black taʿlīq script. The dispersal of the manuscript occurred in the early fourteenth century AH / twentieth CE, and over one-half of its leaves are extant and housed in public and private collections. The illuminated folio with the year of the manuscript's completion and a dedication to the patron is housed in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (S1986.110 and S1986.111), and the folio with the colophon and finispiece is housed in the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection (IR.M. 6/I). The manuscript's illustrations have been associated with production in Shiraz. The Walters paintings are as follows: Zāl joins Miḥrāb in battling the Turanians, Battle of the Iranians and the Turanians, Execution of Afrāsiyāb, and Bahrām Gūr in a peasant’s house.
Main text written in black nastaʿlīq script; chapter headings written in red, blue, and black taʿlīq script
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Grube, Ernst J., and Maria Alberta Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), 33-35.
Simpson, Marianna Shreve. "A Reconstruction and Preliminary Account of the 1341 Shahnama with some Further Thoughts on Early Shahnama Illustration." In Persian Painting from the Mongols to the Qajars. Robert Hillenbrand, ed. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000), 215-247.
Binyon, Laurence, J. V. S. Wilkinson, and Basil Gray. Persian Miniature Painting. (London: Oxford University Press, 1933), no. 24.
Stchoukine, Ivan. La Peinture iranienne sous les derniers 'Abbasids et les Il-Khans. (Bruges: Imprimerie Sainte Catherine, 1936), 93-94; no. XIX.
Corbin, Henri et al. Les arts de l'Iran, L'Ancienne Perse et Baghdad (Paris: Bibliotheque nationale, 1938), 21; no. 21.
Robinson, Basil W. et al. The Keir Collection: Islamic Painting and the Arts of the Book. (London: Faber Limited, 1976), 135; nos. III.4-III.5.
Hillenbrand, Robert. Imperial Images in Persian Painting. (Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, 1977), nos. 64, 136-138, 207.
Soudavar, Abolala. Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection (New York: Rizzoli, 1992), 43-44, no. 14.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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