Shāhnāma, the Persian Book of Kings شاهنامه Manuscrips 1750 AD

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Scanned from its Created Around 1750 AD original book to PDF and Quality Jpeg Files
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Illuminated manuscripts are handwritten books that have been decorated (illuminated) with gold, silver, or brilliant colors. Illuminations may include small illustrations (miniatures), initials, borders, or other decorative elements. They were used to indicate divisions in a text, to tell stories, and to add beauty and visually memorable elements to texts. The earliest surviving examples of such works date from late antiquity (third-fifth century). Manuscript illumination reached its high point in medieval Europe, when illuminators, working within workshops called scriptoria, produced illuminated psalters, Bibles, liturgical texts, illustrated saints’ lives, and other works. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced after the invention of printing, and printed books also were often illustrated with illuminations. Presented here are illuminated manuscripts produced in Europe between 764-83 and 1889, held in the collections of libraries and museums in Europe and North America.
The Book of Kings
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This manuscript containing 215 illustrations is one of the largest pictorial cycles of the
Shāhnāma, the Persian Book of Kings. Several painters, working at different times, were involved in its illumination; the miniatures thus are not uniform in style. Four distinct groups can be identified, with the two oldest groups dating from the 16th century. The miniatures of the first group show large-scale compositions with many figures, executed in minute detail using brilliant colors. The pictures of the second group are of lesser quality with regard to composition and figure drawing. The third group consists of two full-scale illustrations in the style of the court of Isfahan, and which were added in the early 17th century. The fourth group, however, is comprised of miniatures that do not seem related to the Iranian tradition and might be of Indian origin. Some of the best illustrations in this manuscript were possibly painted at the court of Sultan Ibrāhīm Mīrzā in Mashhad before 1565. The Shāhnāma was composed at the end of the tenth century by the poet Firdawsi (circa 940–1020). This beloved national epic is a heroic narrative of pre-Islamic Persia from mythic beginnings to the seventh-century Arab invasion. The legends form part of Iranian identity and have a status in world literature similar to those of Homer’s epics and the plays of William Shakespeare.
Author
Firdawsī, 940-1020
Date Created
Around 1560 - 1750
Subject Date
Around 10000 BCE - 637 CE
Language
Persian
Title in Original Language
شاهنامه
Place
Central and South Asia Iran, Islamic Republic of
Topic
Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other specific languages and language families East Indo-European & Celtic literatures
History & geography History of ancient world to ca. 499 Mesopotamia & Iranian Plateau to 637
Additional Subjects
Calligraphy, Persian
Epic poetry
Illuminations
Kings and rulers
Miniatures (Illuminations)
Mythology
Persian literature
Persian poetry
Poetry
Type of Item
Manuscripts
Physical Description :1530 Pages of PDF and JPEG files
Originally 774 sheets, paper : illustrations ; 28.75 x 17.5 centimeters
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