Perspectives on Persian Painting: Illustrations to Amir Khusrau's Khamsah Review
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Jennifer Kelly
on 12/22/2012
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(More customer reviews)very bad quality of the images . point of view of coloured images the quality of print is not acceptable.
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This is a detailed study of the illustrations to Amir Khusrau's Khamsah, in which twenty discourses are followed by a brief parable, and four romances. Amir Khusrau (1253-1325) lived the greater part of adventurous life in Delhi; he composed in Persian, and also in Hindi. From the point of view of manuscript illustration, his most important work is his Khamsah (Quintet'). Khusrau's position as a link between cultures of Persia and India means that the early illustrated copies of the Khamsah have a particular interest. The first extant exemplar is from the Persian area in the late 14th century, but a case can be made that work was probably illustrated earlier in India.
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