Title
Shāhnāmah : manuscript, 1718-1721
شاهنامه : مخطوطة، 1718-1721
Shāh nāmah
شاه نامه
Shāhnāmah
شاهنامه
Name/Creator
Firdawsī., creator
فردوسي., creator
Khalīl Allāh Haftʻqalamī, fl. 1720, calligrapher.
خليل الله هفت قلمي،, fl. 1720
ʻAbd al-Salām Kashmīrī, fl. 1720, painter.
عبد السلام كشميري،, fl. 1720, painter.
ʻAbd al-Karīm Kashmīrī, fl. 1720, painter.
عبد الكريم كشميري،, fl. 1720, painter.
Sayyidʻzādah ʻIṣmat Allāh Khān, recipient.
سيد زاده عصمت الله خان،, recipient.
Frye, Richard Nelson, 1920-, former owner.
HOLLIS IDDigital Object
[Provides access to page images of entire work]
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:2788314
LocationHoughton
Networked Resource
Language
Persian
Description
1 v. (405 leaves) in box : ill. ; 36 cm.
Form/Genretext
print
Subject
Rustam (Iranian mythology)
;
Rustam (Iranian mythology) -- Pictorial works
;
Persian literature
;
Epic literature, Persian
Category
manuscript
Note
Written in a professional taʻlīq script in black ink, rubricated in red, 20 lines per page in 4 gold-ruled columns. Contains 115 miniatures portraying various scenes from the poem.
Written by the professional calligrapher Khalīl Allāh Haftʻqalamī probably in Lahore in 1131-1134 [1718-1722] (ff. 1r, 201v, 203r, 403r). Last miniature is signed by ʻAbd al-Salām and ʻAbd al-Karīm, residents of Kashmīr, Rajab 1134 [1722] (f. 398v).
The ms is prepared for Sayyidʻzādah ʻIṣmat Allāh Khān (f. 201r).
Bound in brown leather with onlays and tooling, gilt, rebacked.
MS Persian 78. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
In Persian.