Vahshi Bafqi - Farhad and Shirin, ca. 1600
Vahshi Bafqi - Farhad and Shirin, ca. 1600
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ca. 1600
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Safe 1/6d
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0.01 metres of textual material (1 volume) - ink, gold and pigments on paper
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A display caption with the item reads : 'A Persian love lyric: an illuminated manuscript made about A.D. 1600, exhibited to show the Persian style of illumination, in contrast with that of Western Europe. The papier mache and leather binding is a typical and good example of Persian craftsmanship'. Text written in black ink, with decorated borders o...
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Vahshi Bafqi - Farhad and Shirin, ca. 1600
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Includes a letter to the Mitchell Librarian from the private secretary to H.H. the Maharaj Rana of Jhalawar, 19th October 1927, enclosing a typewritten translation into English of several pages of the manuscript.
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Source
Acquired at the J.T. Hackett sale in 1918 (item 496).
Administrative / Biographical history
Mowlana Shams-ed-Din (Kamal-ol-Molk) Mohammad Vahshi Bafqi was a poet of the 16th century AD. Born in Bafq, a village near Yazd circa 1550 AD, and lived in the city of Yazd. His poetry is styled in Tarkeeb-band which is a unique form of poetry in the Persian language composed by combination of several stanzas of equal size. The famous book of 'Far...
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Safe 1/6d
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9PQ8M62n
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457262
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