Gorgeous colour images, as well as translations and commentary on these celebrated Persian poems. Both manuscripts date from the C15th and are exquisitely illustrated. This will be ravishing and scholarly. With contributions on seal inscriptions by Ursula Sims-Williams.
Treasures of Herat: Two Manuscripts of the Khamsah of Nizami in the British Library
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£60.00
Edition:Hardback978190994254729/04/2022
Categories: 07. Spring Books 2022: Ideas & Culture, Art, Decorative Arts, Poetry, Spring Books 2022
Tags: Books about Books, Middle East
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