Prophet Khiżr bathing Iskandar’s horse in the Water of Life
The Sharafnāma is the first half of Niẓāmī’s story of Iskandar, or Alexander the Great. This illustrated copy originally had twelve miniatures. Nine folios with miniatures have been extracted from the manuscript, and they are now owned by the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath City Council. These have been...
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Prophet Khiżr bathing Iskandar’s horse in the Water of Life [electronic resource]. |
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| Other authors: | Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203. |
| Format: | Physical Object |
| Language: | Persian |
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[circa 1590].
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SOAS Digital Library.
South Asia. |
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The Sharafnāma is the first half of Niẓāmī’s story of Iskandar, or Alexander the Great. This illustrated copy originally had twelve miniatures. Nine folios with miniatures have been extracted from the manuscript, and they are now owned by the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath City Council. These have been on loan to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery since 1976. The colophon mentions a date of 880 AH (1475 CE). However, although this may be the correct date of the text, the miniatures were produced in the Mughal Emperor Akbar’s imperial studio in the 1590s. Two of the folios with miniatures are inscribed with the artist’s name: Makrā on fol. 27v and Shiyām on fol. 81r illustrated here (Text by Emily Shovelton, from the exhibition catalogue: Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Anna Contadini, Editor. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007.) |
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| Other authors: | Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203. |
| Language: | Persian |
| Published: |
[circa 1590].
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| Subjects: | |
| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
South Asia. |