The Duel of the Physicians
after Persian School
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1950 (Pre 1950)
Materials
Paper
Measurements
10.125 ins (h)6.875 ins (w)
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Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1274712
Summary
Scene illustrating a story in the Khamsa of Nizami, Persian. British Library OR 2265, Fol.26B. Colour reproduction on grey paper in grey card folder. Scene shows man lying in foreground, others standing, kneeling and sitting around. Canopied platform, garden, tree and hill behind. The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami in the collection of the British Library, is a lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Khamsa or “five poems” of Nizami Ganjavi, a 12th century Persian poet, which was created for the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the early 1590s by a number of artists and a single scribe working at the Mughal court, very probably in Akbar’s new capital of Lahore in North India, now in Pakistan. Apart from the fine calligraphy of the Persian text, the manuscript is celebrated for over forty Mughal miniatures of the highest quality throughout the text.
Provenance
George Bernard Shaw bequest 1950.
Marks and inscriptions
On inside page opposite print - "The Persian Edition of/ "The Doctor's Dilemma"/ With all good wishes for 1945/ from the Winstens./Ayot St. Lawrence."
Makers and roles
after Persian School, artist