The poems of Nizami,
described by Laurence Binyon.

Description

Main Author

Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943.

Related Names

British Museum.

Language(s)

English

Published

London, The Studio, limited, 1928.

Subjects

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, > Niẓāmī Ganjavī, / 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203. > Niẓāmī Ganjavī, / 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203. / Khamsah.
Art, Iranian
Painting > Painting / Iran.
Illumination of books and manuscripts > Illumination of books and manuscripts / Specimens.
Illumination of books and manuscripts > Illumination of books and manuscripts / Iran.

Note

Plates III-XVI are reproductions of the full-page paintings inserted as illustrations of Nizami's five poems (the Khamsah) in a sixteenth century Persian ms. (Brit. mus. Or. 2265); on plates I-II two pages of text and decoration are reproduced. The set in portfolio contains duplicates of the plates on heavy cardboard.

Physical Description

4 p. L., 30 p., 17 L. XVI col. pl. and portfolio of 16 col. pl. 39 cm.

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