Author
Taha Sultan Muhammad, Mir Sayyid ‘Ali, Mir Musafir, Aqa Mirk at Mirza ‘Ali
Publication Date
Manuscript: 1520 - 1540, page 516b, date: 934 AH / 1527 - 8 AD
Publication Place
Iran, Tabriz -
Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Subject
Safavid — Ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper; margins heavily sprinkled with gold; text copied in a superiornasta‘liq,headings are inriqa‘
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
Folio: 47 x 32cm
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
MSS 1030
Record ID
object;EPM;uk;Mus21;31;ar
Library Location
Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Date
Manuscript: 1520 - 1540, page 516b, date: 934 AH / 1527 - 8 AD
Notes
These ten pages come from the Shahnameh, which was made for the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524-1576). It is one of the finest Persian illustrated manuscripts ever produced, called the Shahnameh, according to the collector who hashed it out in New York in the 1970s. It is a large format on wonderful paper sprinkled with gold and has 258 illustrated figures. The figure is presented separately for each plate, and there must have been constant consultation between the writers, illustrators, and annotators about it. Page 516, which is in the Khalili collection, is the only page of the manuscript that contains a date. The manuscript was given by Shah Tahmasp to the Ottoman Sultan Selim II upon the latter’s accession to the throne in 1566. In 1903 the manuscript was in the possession of Edmund Rothschild. The owner changed hands again in the 1960s when its owner, Arthur Houghton Jr., began dispersing it. Today there are about 140 of its paintings in museums. And groups all over the world. The rest of the manuscript - the binding, the text block, and 118 paintings have been in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran since 1994. Al-Khalili pages: Page 25b, The Death of King Mirdas, attributed to Sultan Mahmud Page 27b, Al-Dahhak receives Jamshid’s daughters, attributed to Sultan Mahmud Page 30b, Al-Dahhak kills the sacred cow with an archery, attributed to Sultan Mahmud And Mirsayd Ali, page 38b: Faranak’s mother, Fereydoun, sends gifts to her son, perhaps at the direction of Sultan Mahmud. Page 89b: Mehrab’s wife, Sandukht, goes out with slaves bearing gifts to welcome Sam, perhaps at the direction of Mir Musawwar. Page 119b: Rustam slays a dragon, attributed to Abd al-Wahhab. Page 135b: Rustam and the seven warriors at the hunting ground in Afrasiab. Attributed to Mirza Ali, page 279b: The fight of Rustam and Chingul, attributed to Aqa Mirak, page 516b: The servants of Ardavan Julnar with the young Ardashir, attributed to Mir Musawwar, page 731a: The musician Barbad hides himself in a tree, attributed to Mirza Ali.
Sample Text
“These pages from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh were made for Shah Tahmasp I and are attributed to Sultan Muhammad, Mir Said Ali Mir Musawwar, Aqa Mirak and Mirza Ali” within Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;31;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi
MWNF Working Number: UK1 31
Seçili bibliyografya
Canby, S.R.,The Shahnamah pf Shah Tahmasp. The Persian Book of Kings, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.Dickson, M.B., and Welch, S.C.,The Houghton Shahnameh(2 vols), Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1981.Falk, T. (ed.),The Treasures of Islam, exhibition catalogue, Geneva: Musée Rath, 1985: 68–71, n. 42–4, 46, 49, 50, 53, 57 and 61.Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: n. 299–308, pp.262–69.
