Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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Bookreader Persian MS 3
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Reference Number:
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Persian MS 3
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Parent Work Title:
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Aja' ib al-Makhluqat
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Translated Parent Work Title:
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Marvels of things created
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Creator:
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Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Shamsa
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Role:
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Calligrapher
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Date Created:
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1632-06-30
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Description:
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Important Persian work on cosmology. 256ff. Contemporary binding of black morocco with fine stamped gilt medallions (flowers) and pendants (rabbits). Doublures of crimson leather, with medallions and pendants of gold cut-out work on blue, green and vermillion backgrounds. At the beginning are two Persian seals, with short librarians' entries: 1. Pitifat 'Ali Khan; 2. Mu'izz al-Dawla Bahadur Khan (?) dates 1162/1749; one of the inscriptions appears to records the gift of the manuscript from the first to the second. The colour of the ff varies from cream through coffee to several shades of green. Good calligraphic nasta'liq, 21 lines to the page. An extremely fine illuminated heading at the beginning of the text, the central medallion left unpainted. Colophon on f. 259a signed by Shamsa and dated 12 Dhu'l-hijja 1041/30 June 1632. The 355 miniatures, which exemplify the mature Isfahan style, maintain a high standard of execution throughout.
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Keyword:
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Persian manuscripts; Illuminated manuscript; Cosmology; Solar system; Heavenly bodies; Persian poetry; Calligraphy; Miniatures; Binding
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Language Code:
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per
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Language:
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Persian
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Subject:
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Cosmography
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Subject:
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Natural History
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Subject:
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Heaven in literature
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Sub-Category:
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Miniatures (paintings)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Creation Site:
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Iran: Eşfahān
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Style Period:
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Safawid period
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Style Period:
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Mature Isfahan style
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Item Height:
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342 mm
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Item Width:
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178 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester |
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References:
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B.W. Robinson, 'Persian Paintings in the John Rylands Library' (1980)
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2015-09-14
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Educational Notes:
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Exhibition: The Alchemy of Colour
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Academic Project Lead:
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Carol Burrows
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Academic Project Lead:
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Elaine Sheldon
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