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The White Dīv captures and blinds Kay Kāvus, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)

Title	The White Dīv captures and blinds Kay Kāvus, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)
Publication Date:	1590-1600
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	407 mm x 263 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 277.9
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	1590-1600
Notes	The White Dīv captures and blinds Kay Kāvus, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma). Against all advice, king Kay Kāvus decided to invade Mazandaran, where he and his army were magically blinded by the spells of the White Div (or demon), and are now being kept captive. They will have to be rescued by the hero Rustam. Comically unrefined, the White Div nonetheless has a resigned air as he addresses his foolish prisoner. This folio belongs to a later campaign of artwork, led by the Isfahan artist Muḥammad Zamān, to add dramatic new illustrations to an older manuscript in the Safavid royal library. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with illuminated panels (on recto), painting (on verso) and gold-painted borders, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma) by Abū al-Qāsim Firdausī (d. 1020), manuscript attributed to the early reign of Safavid Shah `Abbās I (r. 1587-1629), Qazvin or Isfahan, Iran, undated, c. 1590-1600, this painting (and possibly entire folio) added as part of the intervention led 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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The White Dīv captures and blinds Kay Kāvus, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)

Publication Date 1590-1600

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 407 mm x 263 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 277.9

Library Location Persian collection

Date 1590-1600

Notes The White Dīv captures and blinds Kay Kāvus, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma). Against all advice, king Kay Kāvus decided to invade Mazandaran, where he and his army were magically blinded by the spells of the White Div (or demon), and are now being kept captive. They will have to be rescued by the hero Rustam. Comically unrefined, the White Div nonetheless has a resigned air as he addresses his foolish prisoner. This folio belongs to a later campaign of artwork, led by the Isfahan artist Muḥammad Zamān, to add dramatic new illustrations to an older manuscript in the Safavid royal library. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with illuminated panels (on recto), painting (on verso) and gold-painted borders, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma) by Abū al-Qāsim Firdausī (d. 1020), manuscript attributed to the early reign of Safavid Shah `Abbās I (r. 1587-1629), Qazvin or Isfahan, Iran, undated, c. 1590-1600, this painting (and possibly entire folio) added as part of the intervention led 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