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Image Number:
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Bookreader PersianMS_977
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Reference Number:
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Persian MS 977
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Link to Catalogue:
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Parent Work Title:
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Shāhnāmah
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Translated Parent Work Title:
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Book of Kings
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Creator:
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Firdawsī
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Daqīqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -980 or 981
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Shahab-i Katib
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Creator Role:
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Scribe
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Date Created:
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1597 [1006 AH]
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Volume:
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1
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Description:
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An early Mughal illustrated Shāhnāmah in two volumes comprising an incomplete and unfinished illustrated Shāhnāmah (Book of Kings), by Abū al-Qāsim Manṣūr Firdawsī (fl. ca. 940–1020). It opens with a shortened redaction of the Baysunghur preface, followed by the poem proper, of which Abū Manṣūr Daqīqī (d. ca. 980) commenced a thousand lines, but after his death, Firdawsī completed the work shortly before the year 1000 CE. He drew upon a number of pre-Islamic Pahlavi middle Persian sources, principally the now-lost Khwadāynāmag (Book of Lords) that recounted the ancient rulers of Persian until the Sassanian period, as well as Iranian mythology and folklore. Originally constructed as a large single manuscript a subsequent owner later divided into two, both volumes feature fourteen paintings in an early commercial Mughal style by three different painters, with many blank spaces intended for illustrations left incomplete. In the colophon at the end of the second volume, Shihāb Kātib states that he completed this manuscript after Friday prayers on 15 Muḥarram 1006 AH (28 Aug. 1597 CE).
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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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Persian literature
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Subject:
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Epic poetry
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Subject:
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Persian poetry--747-1500
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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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Illustrated works
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Creation Site:
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Iran
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Item Height:
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284 mm
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Item Width:
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180 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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Robinson, Samuel, 1794-1884, former owner
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Provenance:
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Owens College, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2023-07-10
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2023-08
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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