Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 406L

Metadata

DS ID:

DS13768

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 406L

Title:

Kitāb-i Shāhnāmah

Author:

Firdawsī / فردوسى

Ferdowsi WIKIDATA

Place:

India

India TGN

Date:

17--?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 344 leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 323 x 214 (255-269 x 159) mm. bound to 325 x 218 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1b.
Physical description: 25-26 lines per page in four columns; written in nastaʻliq script in black on beige Arabic glazed, laid paper. Introduction on fol. 1b-6a written in one column. Text framed by inner border of red, silver, gold and blue and outer border of gold; columns separated by gold lines. Boxes left for subtitles are not all filled in. Some repairs to leaves with partial loss of...
Decoration: Illuminated ʻunwāns on on fol. 1b, 6b. Contains 34 miniatures as follows:
1. fol. 9b: Ṭahmuras̲ slays the black dīv.
2. fol. 11a: Jamshīd enthroned.
3. fol. 11b: Faraydūn enthroned.
4. fol. 13a: Z̤aḥḥāk receiving men. He is depicted with the heads of two black snakes on either shoulder.
5. fol. 13b: The daughter of Gūrang receives the prophecy that she will marry Jamshīd and give birth to a warrior son.
6. fol. 20b: The daughter of Gūrang gives birth to Garshāsp.
7. fol. 24a: Z̤aḥḥāk and his men ride off to war. The two snakes on Z̤aḥḥāk's shoulders have human heads.
8. fol. 25a: Faraydūn binds Z̤aḥḥāk upside-down in a cave.
9. fol. 25b: Faraydūn feasting after the victory.
10. fol. 26b: Faraydūn and Garshāsp.
11. fol. 29b: Garshāsp fighting.
12. fol. 31b: The battle between the Iranians and the Turanians.
13. fol. 38a: Prisoners of war after battle.
14. fol. 40b: King of Yemen with his three daughters and the three sons of Faraydūn.
15. fol. 44a: Salm slays Īraj.
16. fol. 48a: The battle between Manūchihr and Tūr.
17. fol. 49b: The battle between Manūchihr and Salm.
18. fol. 50a: Manūchihr killing Salm.
19. fol. 52a: The birth of Zāl.
20. fol. 67b: The meeting of Zāl and Rudābah.
21. fol. 68b: Zāl and his father Sām.
22. fol. 88a: Rustām slays the white dīv.
23. fol. 109a: Rustām and Suhrāb duel one another. Rustām is depicted wearing a leopard hat in this miniature and the ones that follow.
24. fol. 109b: The death of Suhrāb.
25. fol. 126b: Afrāsiyāb, king of Tūrān, and his court.
26. fol. 129a: Siyāvash and Farangīs, daughter of Afrāsiyāb.
27. fol. 139a: The death of Siyāvash.
28. fol. 140a: The birth of Kay Khusraw.
29. fol. 142b: Kay Khusraw on his throne.
30. fol. 157b: Rustām sits before Kay Khusraw.
31. fol. 180a: Kay Kāvus on his throne.
32. fol. 187a: Rustām slays Ashkabus with mace.
33. fol. 188b: Rustām's fight with the Turanians.
34. fol. 338a: The camp of Iskandar.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Persian

headpieces (layout features)

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963048283506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University