This is a luxuriously illustrated catalogue of more than forty
extraordinary Persian miniature paintings, illuminated manuscripts
and elaborately decorated bookbindings in The al-Sabah Collection,
Kuwait, dating from the period before the Mongol invasions
(11th12th centuries CE) to the early 20th century. It includes rare
examples from the pre-Mongol invasion period; fine illuminations of
Quran manuscripts; Munis al-Ahrar , an important early
fourteenth-century anthology by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din
al-Jajarmi; material from dispersed manuscripts of Firdawsis
Shah-nameh; two previously unpublished copies of Qazwinis Ajaib
al-Makhluqat; three copies of Nizamis Khamsah; Sadis Golestan; and
Jamis Yusuf and Zulaykha and Subhat al-Abrar as well as paintings
from dispersed Safavid and post-Safavid albums, and seventeenth-
century bookbindings and oil paintings from the Zand and Qajar
periods.
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