Fragmentary text folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

İsim	Fragmentary text folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi
Basım Tarihi:	c. 1330
Tür	Belge
Dil	Farsça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Evet
Fiziksel Boyutlar	592 mm x 400 mm (height x width)
Kütüphane:	Chester Beatty
Kayıt Numarası	Per 111.10
Lokasyon	Persian collection
Tarih	c. 1330
Notlar	King Manuchihr, fragmentary text folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi. Dateable to the era of late Mongol Ilkhanid rule in Iran (the 1330s), a dramatic but fragmentary manuscript known as the Great Mongol Shahnama (and also as the Demotte Shahnama) is today dispersed across many international collections, including eleven folios in the Chester Beatty collection. Heavily worn, the manuscript was extensively restored in late nineteenth-century Tehran, probably at the Gulistan Palace library: the folios were trimmed, remargined, and renumbered, with missing text supplemented on new paper folios, written out by Tehran calligraphers following fourteenth-century style. At the start of the twentieth century, the manuscript was sold to a Paris-based dealer, Georges Demotte (d. 1923), reportedly with another dealer Dikran Kelekian as his buying-partner. From 1913, Demotte began selling single illustrated folios cut from the manuscript to art collectors and museums, in Europe and the USA. He had not only disbound the manuscript for its paintings, in eight cases he had folios split vertically - thus splicing apart the page - in order to separate two paintings from either side of one folio. He then pasted each painting onto separate folios, containing text only (usually irrelevant to the painting subject), and sold these folios separately. The text folios rarely survived this activity intact: columns from this text folio (Per 111.10) have been cut out and pasted onto two other folios, each with a pasted-on painting (both in the Keir collection, now on loan to Dallas Art Museum), leaving a patched gap here. By the time Beatty bought his eleven folios (CBL Per 111.1 to Per 111.11, seven with paintings) from Demotte's firm in October 1937, he would have known the so-called "Demotte Shahnama" well: its fifty-eight (known) illustrated folios had been widely exhibited and published. Folio, ink and gold on paper, Persian text in naskh script, several columns missing, from a dispersed Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi, Tabriz, Iran, c. 1330-1335, remargined and repaired, Tehran, Iran, c. 1880-1900, columns removed and patched over, Paris, France, c. 1910-1913
Materyal	Paper (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi	Naskh script

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Fragmentary text folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Basım Tarihi c. 1330

Tür Belge

Dil Farsça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Evet

Fiziksel Boyutlar 592 mm x 400 mm (height x width)

Kütüphane Chester Beatty

Kayıt Numarası Per 111.10

Lokasyon Persian collection

Tarih c. 1330

Notlar King Manuchihr, fragmentary text folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi. Dateable to the era of late Mongol Ilkhanid rule in Iran (the 1330s), a dramatic but fragmentary manuscript known as the Great Mongol Shahnama (and also as the Demotte Shahnama) is today dispersed across many international collections, including eleven folios in the Chester Beatty collection. Heavily worn, the manuscript was extensively restored in late nineteenth-century Tehran, probably at the Gulistan Palace library: the folios were trimmed, remargined, and renumbered, with missing text supplemented on new paper folios, written out by Tehran calligraphers following fourteenth-century style. At the start of the twentieth century, the manuscript was sold to a Paris-based dealer, Georges Demotte (d. 1923), reportedly with another dealer Dikran Kelekian as his buying-partner. From 1913, Demotte began selling single illustrated folios cut from the manuscript to art collectors and museums, in Europe and the USA. He had not only disbound the manuscript for its paintings, in eight cases he had folios split vertically - thus splicing apart the page - in order to separate two paintings from either side of one folio. He then pasted each painting onto separate folios, containing text only (usually irrelevant to the painting subject), and sold these folios separately. The text folios rarely survived this activity intact: columns from this text folio (Per 111.10) have been cut out and pasted onto two other folios, each with a pasted-on painting (both in the Keir collection, now on loan to Dallas Art Museum), leaving a patched gap here. By the time Beatty bought his eleven folios (CBL Per 111.1 to Per 111.11, seven with paintings) from Demotte's firm in October 1937, he would have known the so-called "Demotte Shahnama" well: its fifty-eight (known) illustrated folios had been widely exhibited and published. Folio, ink and gold on paper, Persian text in naskh script, several columns missing, from a dispersed Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi, Tabriz, Iran, c. 1330-1335, remargined and repaired, Tehran, Iran, c. 1880-1900, columns removed and patched over, Paris, France, c. 1910-1913

Materyal Paper (material), Ink (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Yazı Tipi Naskh script