The manuscript has not yet been examined for the Project; this preliminary account is based on the article by B.W. Robinson. Images have been supplied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and these form the basis for the identification of scene titles and other comments. Details such as dimensions of the text block and the illustrations remain to be completed.
There are two owners' seals belonging to Tayyib Khan and his son Muhammad, apparently employed in the Mughal Imperial Library. The MS was rebound in 1255/1839, and to this date the finely painted laquer covers may be assigned.
There are 42 miniatures, a number of which display strong European influence. There were five different artists who signed their paintings between 1104/1693 and 1109/1698. The signatures are as follows: Ghulam Parmak (or Pir Beg), Mu'in, Fazl Ali, Ali Naqi b. Shaykh Abbasi and Ya Sahib al-Zaman.
References
Dating Ref:
Colophon
Extracted from the colophon of the work.
Folio Ref:
Robinson, B.W.
The Shahnameh Manuscript Cochran 4 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (in Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) (ed. Ettinghausen, R.)
pp. 73-86 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. USA.
Illustration Ref:
Robinson, B.W.
The Shahnameh Manuscript Cochran 4 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (in Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) (ed. Ettinghausen, R.)
pp. 73-86 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. USA.
