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100 1 $aBrend, Barbara,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90718682
245 14 $aThe Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami /$cBarbara Brend.
260 $aLondon :$bBritish Library,$c1995.
300 $a72 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c28 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aThe splendours of the Mughal court in the late sixteenth century are reflected in the Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami, a manuscript superbly illustrated in sensuous colour and fine detail, with drama, pathos and wit. The complete range of the illustrations is reproduced here for the first time, together with an abridgement of the stories illustrated, and commentaries on individual pictures. The dazzling designs of non-figurative illumination are also included.
520 8 $aThe Emperor Akbar was 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 a patron of manuscripts on a prodigious scale. His court studio employed the finest calligraphers to copy manuscripts, and the finest painters and illuminators to decorate them.
520 8 $aThe Khamsa, or 'Quintet', is a five-part work in verse by the twelfth-century Persian poet Nizami; its stories are among the most famous in Persian literature. Down the centuries, numerous rulers and people of culture in the Islamic world have found it indispensable to own a beautiful copy of the Khamsa.
600 00 $aNiẓāmī Ganjavī,$d1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203.$tKhamsah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85284702
650 0 $aIslamic illumination of books and manuscripts$zIran.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123013
710 2 $aBritish Library.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81139951
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