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Tehran, Malik National Library & Museum (in index)
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Sample Illustration
© The Malik Library, Tehran.
This record is incomplete and has not been verified by the project. It is a work in progress. Use this information with caution.
Details
Accession Number:
No. 700-715
Gregorian Date:
16th century (late)
Origin:
Isfahan ?
Ownership:
Museum collection, as opposed to Library.
Calligrapher:
Unknown
Folios extant in ms.:
15
Columns x Rows:
4 x
Text Size (h x w):
x 130 mm
Script:
Nasta'liq
Ms Type:
Detached manuscript folios
Ms Status:
Excerpts
Completion Status:
Search not completed
Illuminations in ms:
0
Illustrations in ms:
15 ( 15 Shahnama )
Illustration Records in archive:
Last updated by:
charles
Date last updated:
2009-04-22 19:47
 
Public Notes
The Malik Library Museum contains 15 detached folios from an unknown Shahnama. It is not clear whether the original manuscript has survived elsewhere.

The images are presented here in their correct order according to the story. All the surviving folios all have paintings; it is not clear if any of the reverses do as well, but they seem to have been stuck down very hard to their mounts. The fact that all the images have been mounted and framed makes it impossible to recover full details of the page dimensions and record the surrounding lines of poetry when the painting comes at the top or bottom of the page.

Project Notes
This Ms seems at be a duplicate (both Ms have the same number of images although one says 15 and the other says 17 on the title page). I will add the changes I have made to illustrations in this group to the other MS so that this MS may be deleted if needed. MN
 
References
Origin Ref:
Melville, C. Personal notes.