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Medallion (shamsa) and text with illuminated borders, from the History by Bal`ami (Tarikh-i Bal`ami).
This illuminated medallion marks the first page-opening of this magnificent book, and the text itself begins overleaf, framed within an illuminated border. The medallion on the right has been salvaged from a slightly earlier manuscript, and has been pasted very subtly onto this page. The medallion on the left (shown here) is therefore a careful copy, made in 1470, along with the rest of this manuscript.
Writing in late tenth century Bukhara at the Samanid court of Mansur ibn Nuh (r. 961-976), the minister and historian Muhammad al-Bal`ami composed a new work in Persian, translating and supplementing The History of the Prophets and Kings (Ta'rikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, in Arabic) by the `Abbasid scholar Abu Ja`far Muhammad al-Tabari (d. 923). This illustrated copy of Bal`ami's history (Tarikh-i Bal`ami) was produced in Timurid Herat, in the year 1470.
Folio, colours and gold on paper, single radiating medallion (on recto), and incipit Persian text in nasta`liq script with illuminated borders, right side of a double-page composition (on verso), from History of Bal`ami (Tarikh-i Bal`ami), Herat, Afghanistan, dated Sha`ban 874H, February 1470. This is one of seven folios detached from its codex, which is also in the Chester Beatty Persian collection (Per 144).
Medallion (recto), and text with illuminated borders (verso), from Bal`ami's History (Tarikh-i Bal`ami)
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Persian collection
Persian (language)
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Approved Place 2018/Asia/Central Asia/Afghanistan/Herat
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351 mm x 240 mm (height x width)
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