1985 Miniatures: Illuminations of Nisami's "Hamsah"

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

In the publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt.

This volume is a first edition.

Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

Although there are some English translations, the main text is in Russian with some Uzbek. 

The Hamsah, also spelled Khamsa, meaning “five poems” or “quintet” in Persian and Arabic, is the magnum opus of Nizami Ganjavi (c.1141-1209), one of the most celebrated poets of the Persian literary canon. The Hamsah has inspired centuries of manuscripts that feature elaborate illuminations or miniatures illustrating the stories within.

There are 224 colour illustrations of the miniatures, with a further 30 colour reproductions of specimens of illuminated bindings, half titles, frontispieces and other decorated folios. Collated, complete.