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Safavid Iran, Shiraz, circa 1590-1600<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Large Persian manuscript on paper. 723 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 22 lines to the page text arranged in 4 columns, written in nasta\u2019liq<\/em> script in black ink, titles in white script against a gold ground.\u00a0One frontispiece on folio 1. Incomplete Shahnama<\/em> including interpolated epics such as the Barzounama.\u00a0<\/em>20 miniature paintings<\/strong>, The manuscript originally had 30 miniatures. Colophon<\/strong> with the apocryphal date AH 900\/AD 1494-95 (possibly 990H.\/1582-83?). Stamp of the Iranian Customs <\/strong>dated in Solar Hijra 1306\/AD 1928. Gilt-stamped Safavid binding<\/strong> with fine polychrome and red leather inside flap. In a later leather box.<\/p>\n

Dimension\u00a0page: 37.5 x 25 cm; Thickness\u00a0manuscript: 9.5 cm; Text panel: 23 x 13.5 cm; Box: 39 x 27 x 10 cm; Weight: 5.200 kg<\/p>\n

Provenance<\/u>: E. Sassoon, 22 rue Drouot, Paris, circa 1930<\/p>\n

To be sold at auction in Cherbourg (Ma\u00eetre Samuel Boscher), on Sunday 1st August 2021, lot 283<\/h4>\n

This illuminated manuscript contains 20 illustrations:\u00a0<\/strong>Fol. 14a: Fariydun takes Zahhak prisoner; Fol. 47b: Rostam fights the white elephant; Fol. 63b: Rostam fights Afrasiyab; Fol. 73b: Rostam fights the white Div in front of Awlad prisoner; Fol. 98b: Rostam and Sohrab; Fol. 155a: Siyavash decapitating the enemy in battle; Fol. 189b: Forud fights Giv; Fol. 239a: The combat of Rostam and Puladvand; Fol. 242a: The Div Akvan throws Rostam into the sea; Fol. 260b: Rostam fights the black div; Fol. 291b: Gudarz fights Piran; Fol. 308b: Kay Khusraw slays Shideh ; Fol. 334a: The death of Afrasiyab; Fol. 386b: Esfandiyar slaying two wolves; Fol. 429b: Rostam and Esfandiyar; Fol. 439a: Rostam and Rakhsh fall into the pit laid by Shaghad; Fol. 597a: The army of Khosraw Anushirvan storms a Byzantine fortress; Fol. 656b: Hormozd sends a distaff to the disgraced Bahram Chubineh; Fol. 708b: Khosrow killed by Mehr Hormozd on the order of his son; Fol.\u00a0716a: The Sassanid general Rostam fights Sa\u2019d.<\/p>\n

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