Treasures of Herat: Two Manuscripts of the Khamsah of Nizami in the British Library Brend Barbara
Treasures of Herat: Two Manuscripts of the Khamsah of Nizami in the British Library Brend Barbara An illustrated reference book for students and scholars of Persian art, poetry, and literature.With…
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Treasures of Herat: Two Manuscripts of the Khamsah of Nizami in the British Library Brend Barbara
An illustrated reference book for students and scholars of Persian art, poetry, and literature.With this book, Barbara Brend provides thorough consideration of two celebrated Persian manuscripts housed in the British Library. Although well known, the manuscripts have never before been written about in relation to each other. These two copies of the Khamsah (Quintet) a set of five narrative poems by twelfth-century poet Nizami, a master of allegorical poetry in Persian literature, were produced in Herat in the fifteenth century, one of the greatest periods of Persian painting.
Brend tells the story of each poem and the painting that illustrates it, and she formally analyzes the images, placing them in their historical and artistic context.The images from both highly prized manuscripts are beautifully reproduced in color, and the ownership history of one of the
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