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Introduction to the Shahnama (illuminated text, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
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This is the left-hand side of an illuminated double page. The text, written in white within the central medallion, begins the introduction to Firdawsi’s Shahnama composed by the Timurid prince Baysunghur Mirza. The page is densely decorated with geometric motifs in blue and gold, layered with intricate floral vines and cloudbands. The design and palette are characteristic of frontispieces produced in the second half of the sixteenth century in Iran and Central Asia.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[Christies London 17 October 1995 lot no. 79]. [Mansour Gallery London before 1997] sold; to Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Belmont MA (by 1997-2002) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2002.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art
Title: Introduction to the Shahnama (illuminated text, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Description:
This is the left-hand side of an illuminated double page.
The text, written in white within the central medallion, begins the introduction to Firdawsi’s Shahnama composed by the Timurid prince Baysunghur Mirza.
The page is densely decorated with geometric motifs in blue and gold, layered with intricate floral vines and cloudbands.
The design and palette are characteristic of frontispieces produced in the second half of the sixteenth century in Iran and Central Asia.
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