Manuscript/Mixed Material Image 1 of Shāhnāmah
About this Item
Title
- Shāhnāmah
Other Title
- شاهنامه
Names
- Firdawsī, author
Created / Published
- 1259 [1842]
Headings
- - Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
- - India
Notes
- - Manuscript.
- - Persian.
- - Caption title.
- - Name of scribe or scribes not indicated.
- - Purchase
- - Written in Kashmir, India.
- - Paper; light-cream paper; four colums per pate with triple-ruled frames of black, blue, and gold; column divisions illuminated in red, blue, and gilt; large illuminated headpieces at ff. 2.v, 153.v, 307v, and 465v., each having a different design, comprising two to three cartouches of red-on-gold calligraphy, surmounted by illuminated panels, surrounded by floreated frames all in various permutations of gold, blue, black, white, red, and pink; section headings in red-on-gold cartouches throughout, and sections of the text arranged into a diamond patterns, with the interstices floreated in gold; text in black ink.
- - Browne. A literary history of Persia, v. 1, 110-123; v. 2, 129-145
- - Nastaʻliq; 25 lines in written area 28.2 x 15.6 cm.
- - Includes 50 three-quarter-length miniatures to accompany the text.
- - Folios 1a-582b.
- - Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M14.
- - Contemporary Indian binding of blind-stamped red leather with bronze clasps, original leater headbands, discreetly rebacked retaining the original spine; flyleaves and pastedowns were renewed in the 19th century; front pastedown has a Persian inscription supplying a foliation; the rear pastdown contains and English cataloger's note (brown ink) supplying the title, author, and date of copying.
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Medium
- 582/320 leaves (25 lines), bound : paper ; 36.6 x 23.5 cm
Call Number/Physical Location
- PK6455 .A1 1842
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2016374191
Online Format
- image