Treasures of Herat
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In this book, Barbara Brend provides an account of two very beautiful manuscripts housed in the British Library (Or.6810 and Add.25900). Both are copies of the Khamsah, a set of five poems by the Twelfth-century poet, Nizami, one of the most renowned authors of Persian literature.
Although well known, the manuscripts have never before been written about in relation to each other. Brend tells the story of each poem and the painting that illustrates it, and she formally analyses the images, placing them in their historical and artistic context. The images from both highly-prized manuscripts are beautifully reproduced in colour, and the collected history of one of the manuscripts—recorded in the form of seal impressions and inscriptions—is also included.
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- Publisher: Gingko
- ISBN: 978-1-909942-54-7
- Number of pages: 240
- Weight: 2kg
- Dimensions: 24 x 2.4 x 29 cm
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"Barbara Brend has devoted decades of forensic labour to the task of unravelling the complexities of these two fifteenth-century manuscripts of Nizami’s Khamsah in the British Library. In clear and elegant prose she explains what makes them great and how text and image illuminate each other. Her insights are by turns surprising, stimulating and compelling, and they are consistently fresh and original. Quite simply, this book is a treasure, and it takes the study of Timurid painting to new levels of sophistication." - Robert Hillenbrand, Emeritus Professor in Islamic Art History at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews.
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Barbara Brend is a specialist in the field of Persian and Mughal painting. Her most recent books include Perspectives on Persian Painting: Illustrations to Amir Khusrau’s Khamsah and Muhammad Juki’s Shahnamah of Firdausi.
