Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208)
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Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208)
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The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami British Library, Or. 12208 is a lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Khamsa or "five poems" of Nizami Ganjavi, a 12th-century Persian poet, which was created for the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the early 1590s by a number of artists and a single scribe working at the Mughal court, very probably in Akbar's new capital of Lahore in North India, now in Pakistan. Apart from the fine calligraphy of the Persian text, the manuscript is celebrated for over forty
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Mughal illuminated manuscript
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamsa_of_Nizami_(British_Library,_Or._12208)
date created:
2011-01-15T11:51:32Z
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2024-08-27T18:06:00Z
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