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
(11th-12th centuries CE) to the early 20th century. It includes
rare examples from the pre-Mongol invasion period; fine
illuminations of Qur'an manuscripts; Mu'nis al-Ahrar, an important
early fourteenth-century anthology by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din
al-Jajarmi; material from dispersed manuscripts of Firdawsi's
Shah-nameh; two previously unpublished copies of Qazwini's 'Aja'ib
al-Makhluqat; three copies of Nizami's Khamsah; Sa'di's Golestan;
and Jami's 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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