Perspectives on Persian Painting: Illustrations to Amīr Khusrau's KhamsahThis is a detailed study of the illustrations to Amir Khusrau's Khamsah, in which twenty discourses are followed by a brief parable, and four romances. Amir Khusrau (1253-1325) lived the greater part of adventurous life in Delhi; he composed in Persian, and also in Hindi. From the point of view of manuscript illustration, his most important work is his Khamsah (Quintet'). Khusrau's position as a link between cultures of Persia and India means that the early illustrated copies of the Khamsah have a particular interest. The first extant exemplar is from the Persian area in the late 14th century, but a case can be made that work was probably illustrated earlier in India. |
Contents
The Khamsah in summary | 1 |
Manuscripts of western Iran prior to the death of Shah Rukh | 37 |
Sultanate manuscripts | 73 |
Manuscripts in Turkman styles | 101 |
Ottoman manuscripts under Bāyezīd II | 150 |
Classical and subclassical styles of Herat 167 | 203 |
Mughal manuscripts to the period of Jahāngīr | 225 |
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Perspectives on Persian Painting: Illustrations to Amir Khusrau's Khamsah Barbara Brend No preview available - 2016 |
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