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Salm and Tūr organise the murder of their brother Īraj, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)

Title	Salm and Tūr organise the murder of their brother Īraj, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)
Author	Isfahan
Publication Date:	1675-1676 (1087H)
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	408 mm x 262 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 277.16
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	1675-1676 (1087H)
Notes	Salm and Tūr organise the murder of their brother Īraj, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma). Angry over the succession plan, the two embittered sons of Farīdūn have organised the murder of their innocent brother Īraj. They send his head to their horrified father, seated here on the left. Farīdūn is dressed in contemporary Safavid fashion, and he may be understood also as Muḥammad Zamān's royal patron, Shah Sulaymān. The scene takes place in front of a European architectural composition in startling illusionistic perspective. The source image was a print by the Dutch artistprintmaker Hendrik Hondius (died 1650), adapted in turn from Hans Vredeman de Vries (died 1607). A specialist painter in the European mode (farangi-saz, in Persian), Isfahan court painter Muḥammad Zamān was appointed to add modern paintings to this older manuscript from the royal library, in 1675-6. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on recto) and gold-painted borders, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma) by Abū al-Qāsim Firdausī (d. 1020), painting by Muḥammad Zamān, folio produced Qazvin or Isfahan, Iran, c. 1590-1600, this painting (or possibly entire folio) added as part of an intervention by Muḥammad Zamān, Isfahan, Iran, 1675-1676. This is one of twenty-two folios in the Chester Beatty, all from the same partial copy (possibly never fully completed) of Firdausī's Shāhnāma: ten folios are in a modern binding, twelve are mounted separately. Most of these folios are not directly sequential, and fall into three sets, narrating the earliest kings, Farīdūn and his descendants, and Rustam.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold pigment
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri	Unknown, Qazvin
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Salm and Tūr organise the murder of their brother Īraj, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)

Author Isfahan

Publication Date 1675-1676 (1087H)

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 408 mm x 262 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 277.16

Library Location Persian collection

Date 1675-1676 (1087H)

Notes Salm and Tūr organise the murder of their brother Īraj, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma). Angry over the succession plan, the two embittered sons of Farīdūn have organised the murder of their innocent brother Īraj. They send his head to their horrified father, seated here on the left. Farīdūn is dressed in contemporary Safavid fashion, and he may be understood also as Muḥammad Zamān's royal patron, Shah Sulaymān. The scene takes place in front of a European architectural composition in startling illusionistic perspective. The source image was a print by the Dutch artistprintmaker Hendrik Hondius (died 1650), adapted in turn from Hans Vredeman de Vries (died 1607). A specialist painter in the European mode (farangi-saz, in Persian), Isfahan court painter Muḥammad Zamān was appointed to add modern paintings to this older manuscript from the royal library, in 1675-6. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on recto) and gold-painted borders, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma) by Abū al-Qāsim Firdausī (d. 1020), painting by Muḥammad Zamān, folio produced Qazvin or Isfahan, Iran, c. 1590-1600, this painting (or possibly entire folio) added as part of an intervention by Muḥammad Zamān, Isfahan, Iran, 1675-1676. This is one of twenty-two folios in the Chester Beatty, all from the same partial copy (possibly never fully completed) of Firdausī's Shāhnāma: ten folios are in a modern binding, twelve are mounted separately. Most of these folios are not directly sequential, and fall into three sets, narrating the earliest kings, Farīdūn and his descendants, and Rustam.

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

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri Unknown, Qazvin

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script