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Rustam captured by the Akvan Div, extract from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi, in Anthology of Ghazals (Ghazaliyyat al-motafarriqeh) by multiple authors

Title	Rustam captured by the Akvan Div, extract from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi, in Anthology of Ghazals (Ghazaliyyat al-motafarriqeh) by multiple authors
Publication Date:	1449 (853H)
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	210 mm x 78 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 127.95
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	1449 (853H)
Notes	Rustam captured by the Akvan Div, extract from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi, in Anthology of Ghazals (Ghazaliyyat al-motafarriqeh) by multiple authors. This painting depicts an episode in Firdausi's Book of Kings, in which the great hero Rustam has been kidnapped while sleeping, by the evil demon known as the Akvan Div. The demon has lifted away the ground beneath the sleeping hero, in order not to wake him up. The demon hovers above the earth, and asks Rustam to choose his death - would he prefer to be thrown to the rocks below or into the sea? Knowing that the Akvan Div will do the reverse, Rustam asks to be thrown to the land, and is therefore hurled down into the waves. He swims ashore, and escapes. Folio in safina format, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, painting (on recto), stencilled border (on verso), detached from an anthology of ghazals (Ghazaliyyat al-motafarriqeh) by the poets Sa`di, Hasan Dihlavi, Khwaju Kirmani, `Iraqi, Awhadi, Qasim-i Anvar, Amir Khusrau, Katibi, Mahmud ibn Yamin, Firdausi (from the Shahnama), Salman Savaji, Kamal al-Din Khujandi, `Imad Faqih, Hafiz, Nazari, Nizami (from Layla wa Majnun), Jalal, `Ubayd, `Ismat, Shahi, Abu Ishaq (gastronomy poems), probably Shiraz, Iran, dated Rajab 853H (colophon in codex Per 127, on f. 204r), July-August 1449.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Rustam captured by the Akvan Div, extract from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi, in Anthology of Ghazals (Ghazaliyyat al-motafarriqeh) by multiple authors

Publication Date 1449 (853H)

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 210 mm x 78 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 127.95

Library Location Persian collection

Date 1449 (853H)

Notes Rustam captured by the Akvan Div, extract from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi, in Anthology of Ghazals (Ghazaliyyat al-motafarriqeh) by multiple authors. This painting depicts an episode in Firdausi's Book of Kings, in which the great hero Rustam has been kidnapped while sleeping, by the evil demon known as the Akvan Div. The demon has lifted away the ground beneath the sleeping hero, in order not to wake him up. The demon hovers above the earth, and asks Rustam to choose his death - would he prefer to be thrown to the rocks below or into the sea? Knowing that the Akvan Div will do the reverse, Rustam asks to be thrown to the land, and is therefore hurled down into the waves. He swims ashore, and escapes. Folio in safina format, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, painting (on recto), stencilled border (on verso), detached from an anthology of ghazals (Ghazaliyyat al-motafarriqeh) by the poets Sa`di, Hasan Dihlavi, Khwaju Kirmani, `Iraqi, Awhadi, Qasim-i Anvar, Amir Khusrau, Katibi, Mahmud ibn Yamin, Firdausi (from the Shahnama), Salman Savaji, Kamal al-Din Khujandi, `Imad Faqih, Hafiz, Nazari, Nizami (from Layla wa Majnun), Jalal, `Ubayd, `Ismat, Shahi, Abu Ishaq (gastronomy poems), probably Shiraz, Iran, dated Rajab 853H (colophon in codex Per 127, on f. 204r), July-August 1449.

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

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script