The Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Nizami (The British Library Manuscripts in Colour Series)

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The splendours of the Mughal court within the late sixteenth century are reflected within the Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Nizami, a manuscript superbly illustrated in sensuous colour and fine detail, with drama, pathos and wit. The entire range of the illustrations is reproduced here for the primary time, along side an abridgement of the stories illustrated, and commentaries on individual pictures. The dazzling designs of non-figurative illumination are also included.
The Emperor Akbar was once the third member of the Mughal dynasty to rule in northern India, his reign of 1556-1605 encompassing the period of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Akbar was once a patron of manuscripts on a prodigious scale. His court studio employed the finest calligraphers to duplicate manuscripts, and the finest painters and illuminators to embellish them.
The Khamsa, or ‘Quintet’, is a five-part work in verse by the twelfth-century Persian poet Nizami; its stories are a number of the most famous in Persian literature. Down the centuries, a lot of rulers and people of culture within the Islamic world have found it indispensable to own a phenomenal copy of the Khamsa.

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