An illustrated leaf from Hafiz-i Abru's Majma al-Tawarikh (The Assembly of History): an enthroned ruler with a courtier Timurid Persia, Herat, circa 1425
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Timurid Persia, Herat, circa 1425
Timurid Persia, Herat, circa 1425
420 x 325 mm.
Footnotes
The Majma al-Tawarikh was written between 1423 and 1427 and is partly based on an earlier work, the Jami al-Tawarikh (Gatherer of Chronicles), ordered by the Ilkhanid ruler Uljaytu and compiled by his minister Rashid al-Din at the Rab'-i Rashidi scriptorium at Tabriz in 1314. The text consists of four parts: a history of the world up to the Arab conquest; a history of the Caliphate until 1258; a history of Persia during the Seljuk and Mongol periods; and the Zubdat al-Tawarikh, which chronicles the lives of Timur and Shah Rukh until 1427. There are two extant copies: a dispersed manuscript formerly in the collection of Emile Tabbagh and Parish Watson, and the other copy, dated AH 829/AD 1425, is in the Topkapi Saray Library, Istanbul (H. 1653).
For further reading see: S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins: Islamic and Indian Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan, London 1998, pp. 28-31; T. Lentz and G. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, Los Angeles and Washington 1989, pp. 98-102.
Other leaves from the Majma al-Tawarikh were sold in these rooms, Islamic and Indian Art, 6th October 2008, lots 6, 7 and 8.