Literature
Five poems (quintet)
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
8 Shaʿbān 1059 AH / 1649 CE
From the archive
This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the Khamsah (quintet) by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE), written in 1059 AH / 1649 CE by Shams al-Dīn Kirmānī. The codex opens with an illuminated titlepiece inscribed hadhā kitāb Khamsah-ʾi Mawlānā Shaykh-i Niẓāmī (fol. 1b). There are additional illuminated headpieces for the subsequent four poems (fols. 22b, 82b, 130b, and 180b). The illustrations are in different styles executed during the Safavid and Qajar periods. The floral lacquer binding dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
- Place of origin
- Iran
- Language
- The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
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Manuscript TEI origin: “Iran”. Dates describe this physical manuscript, not the author's life or the work's first composition.
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Source ID: W.611
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