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Mirror of the Invisible World Tales from the Khamseh of Nizami
[Buy it!] | Peter J. Chelkowski Translations by Vernon Newton | USD 25.00
(Fri Jun 7 07:28:42 2024) | Biblio | ETG Book Cafe | This book is clothbound and decorated with paper illustration set in on front cover; there is moderate edgewear and surface scuffing. The binding is tight, the textblock pages are clean; the bottom corner is cut from copyright page, no text is cut out. Full color illustrations with details are tipped in Frontis and throughout. The lavishly illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami of poems by the 12th-century Persian Nizami Ganjavi was created in the early 1590s for the Mughal Emperor Akbar of the area of Pakistan. Fine calligraphy and miniatures of the highest quality were executed by number of artists and a single scribe. The manuscript has been described as 'one of the finest examples of the Indo-Muslim arts of the book'. This edition of the translations of 'Khosrow and Shirin', 'Layla and Majnum', and 'The Seven Princesses' was published on the occasion of the opening of the new Islamic Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Date: 1975. The Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 0870991426 9780870991424 [US] |
