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Accession Number:
Ms 54.60
Hijri Date:
831
Gregorian Date:
1427 (to nearest hijri year)
Origin:
Shiraz
Patron:
Khwaji Nur al-Din Muhammad Daulat
Calligrapher:
Muhmmad ibn Muhammad
Folios extant in ms.:
485
Columns x Rows:
4 x 29
Page Size (h x w):
313 x 220 mm
Text Size (h x w):
230 x 150 mm
Script:
Nasta'liq
Ms Type:
Codex
Ms Status:
Complete
Completion Status:
No illustrations at the moment
Illustrations in ms:
89 ( 1 frontispiece(s) 88 Shahnama )
Illustration Records in archive:
89 (0 with image) (click here to go to illustrations below)
Last updated by:
charles
Date last updated:
2011-07-08 14:03
 
Public Notes
For an account of this ms., see Chander Shekhar, pp. 128-32, who believes it is the second oldest dated copy of the text. He reads the scribe as al-Mabud b. Muhammad b. Mahmud. The handlist of mss records 90 illustrations and Chander Shekhar gives 87.
Project Notes
Clarify which Preface is there: perhaps not Baysunghuri one (soearly).
 
References
General Ref:
Sims, E. The illustrated manuscripts of Firdausi's Shahnama commissioned by princes of the house of Timur. (in Ars Orientalis) 22 (1993) pp. 43-68
General Ref:
Nassiri, Gila Introduction to Shahnama Fiduasi's Manuscripts Authenticated by the Institute of Cultural Studies and Research. Institute of Cultural Studies and Research. Tehran. Germany.
General Ref:
Chander Shekhar Some rare and valuable mss. of Shahnama in the National Museum, New Delhi. (in Ferdowsi and his Shahnameh) (in Proceedings of the All India Seminar) (ed. H.N. Modi) pp. 126-50 Culture House of the Islamic Republic of Iran & K.R. Cama Oriental Institute. Mumbai. India.
Dating Ref:
Colophon Extracted from the colophon of the work.
Origin Ref:
Mahdavi, M. Amin Amin Mahdavi's Personal Inspection Notes.
Illustration Ref:
Mahdavi, M. Amin Amin Mahdavi's Personal Inspection Notes.
 
 
Illustration in archive - 89     (back to top)
f. 001v
Frontispiece (verso side) (1427)
f. 005r
Firdausi and the poets of Ghazna (1427)
f. 008r
The Div Khazarvan fights Siyamak (1427)
f. 013r
Zahhak hears Kava's complaint (1427)
f. 020v
The murder of Iraj (1427)
f. 037v
Sam asks the Simurgh to return Zal (1427)
f. 040v
The birth of Rustam (1427)
f. 050r
Rustam catches Rakhsh (1427)
f. 052v
Kay Kavus enthroned (1427)
f. 055r
Rustam's first labour: Rakhsh kills a lion (1427)
f. 056r
Rustam's third labour: he kills a dragon (1427)
f. 058r
Rustam's seventh labour: he kills the White Div (1427)
f. 065v
Kay Kavus airborne (1427)
f. 067v
Rustam kills Alkus in combat (1427)
f. 069
Tahmina visits Rustam's chamber (1427)
f. 076v
Rustam mortally wounds Suhrab (1427)
f. 084r
The fire ordeal of Siyavush (1427)
f. 092r
Siyavush plays polo before Afrasiyab (1427)
f. 101r
Guruy executes Siyavush (1427)
f. 109r
f. 112v
f. 117r
f. 120v
f. 133v
f. 140r
f. 142r
f. 143v
f. 145v
f. 146r
f. 157r
f. 160r
Akvan Div flings Rustam into the sea (1427)
f. 162v
f. 164r
f. 170r
f. 177r
f. 183r
f. 184r
f. 195v
f. 200r
f. 205r
f. 209v
f. 222r
f. 231vA
(1427)
f. 231vB
(1427)
f. 232v
f. 233r
f. 233v
f. 240r
f. 244v
f. 246r
f. 250v
f. 257r
f. 260v
f. 270r
f. 272r
f. 273v
f. 282r
f. 288r
f. 291r
f. 292v
f. 294r
f. 301v
f. 304v
f. 310v
f. 312r
f. 313v
f. 317r
Rustam kills Shaghad before dying (1427)
f. 319v
(1427)
f. 326r
f. 336r
f. 337v
f. 349r
f. 355r
f. 357r
f. 370v
f. 374v
f. 377v
f. 389r
f. 402v
f. 411v
f. 435v
f. 440r
f. 445r
f. 452r
(1427)
f. 455v
f. 459v
f. 462r
f. 468r
(1427)
f. 470v