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Antique Persian Book Shahnameh Qajar Illustration

$ 475.2

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Language: Persian
  • Original/Facsimile: Unknown
  • Material: Paper
  • Region: Middle East
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Date of Publication: Unknown
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Type: Typescript
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back

    Description

    This is NOT handwritten, most likely a lithographic print.
    It is identical with the following edition:
    " Ferdowsi. شاهنامۀ حکيم ابو القاسم فردوسى طوسى (Shahnameh). Bombay, 1913. A lithographic copy of the Shahnameh commissioned by the Indian Zoroastrian Parsi community .???
    Description:
    The Shahnameh, the seminal Persian literary work, is based primarily on a prose translation of an earlier Pahlavi work, known as the Xvatāynamāk (Book of Kings), from the pre-Islamic Sassanid era (224–651). The poet Daqiqi (942–980), a contemporary of the poet Ferdowsi (940–1020), began rendering the Shahnameh In verse, and, in turn, Ferdowsi included many of Daqiqi’s couplets in his version of the Shahnameh. Although the manuscript’s place of publication is not noted, it is in an Iranian style with text written in the Persian Nastaliq calligraphic style, one of the oldest and most prized styles of Persian calligraphy used for manuscripts.
    Book is little stained with ink , a little pencil annotated.  Dimension 42.5 x 27 centimeters
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