WESAL SHIRAZI, Mirza Kucik Farhad o Shirin [Farhad and Shirin], calligraphed by Ali Muhammad Shirazi on 15 July 1847. Persian manucript on glazed writing paper, c. 17,8 x 11,5 cm, [64] ff., written in a nice hand, in 2 columns within grey and gold...
Estimation :
2000 / 3000
Adjudication :
4000 €
Description
borders. Cont. richly decorated boards (some ff. loosening), covers with rectangular ornamental borders in black, red and gold, flat spine, decorated endpapers in black with central rectangle in brown and with gilt ornaments (minor traces of use). In very good condition.
Manuscript copy of the "mathnawi"(poem in couplet form) “Farhad o Shirin” of Mirza Wesal Shirazi (1783-1846). “Farhad, a romantic figure in Persian legend and literature, best known from the poetry of Nezami Ganjavi (c.1140-1208) as a rival with the Sasanian king Khosrow II Parvez (r. 591-628) for the love of the beautiful Armenian princess Shirin. His story, following its masterly depiction by Nezami, provided the source for several narrative works in Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Pashto, and Kurdish. Throughout the centuries many poets have tried to compose imitations of Nezami, either in the form of self-contained narrative poems, or within the wider frame of the Khosrow and Shirin romance. Wahshi Bafqi (d. 1583) was in the initial stages of composing a “Farhad o Shirin” when he died. His work was completed by Wesal Shirazi with some additional lines later appended by Aqa Mahdi Saber Shirazi, who would have preferred for Farhad to be receptive to love instead of rejecting Shirin’s advances” (Enc. Iranica). The ms. was written only 1 year after the author's death. According to the catalogus catalogorum of Persian manuscripts by Ahmad Monzavi, published in 1972, only 1 elder manuscript is known (dated 1260/1844-45). It is not impossible that the notes erased on the t.-p. were "Kitāb-i Shirīn u Farhād" (= the book of S. and F.") with the names of the protagonists. Initial decoration in red and blue, with gold. Headings in red or black. Illustrated with 4 miniatures: scenes with blue (or purple) and gold background and with figures in various colours (blue, red, green, yellow etc.); on verso a flowery design in gold and bluish grey within ruled borders.
Manuscript copy of the "mathnawi"(poem in couplet form) “Farhad o Shirin” of Mirza Wesal Shirazi (1783-1846). “Farhad, a romantic figure in Persian legend and literature, best known from the poetry of Nezami Ganjavi (c.1140-1208) as a rival with the Sasanian king Khosrow II Parvez (r. 591-628) for the love of the beautiful Armenian princess Shirin. His story, following its masterly depiction by Nezami, provided the source for several narrative works in Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Pashto, and Kurdish. Throughout the centuries many poets have tried to compose imitations of Nezami, either in the form of self-contained narrative poems, or within the wider frame of the Khosrow and Shirin romance. Wahshi Bafqi (d. 1583) was in the initial stages of composing a “Farhad o Shirin” when he died. His work was completed by Wesal Shirazi with some additional lines later appended by Aqa Mahdi Saber Shirazi, who would have preferred for Farhad to be receptive to love instead of rejecting Shirin’s advances” (Enc. Iranica). The ms. was written only 1 year after the author's death. According to the catalogus catalogorum of Persian manuscripts by Ahmad Monzavi, published in 1972, only 1 elder manuscript is known (dated 1260/1844-45). It is not impossible that the notes erased on the t.-p. were "Kitāb-i Shirīn u Farhād" (= the book of S. and F.") with the names of the protagonists. Initial decoration in red and blue, with gold. Headings in red or black. Illustrated with 4 miniatures: scenes with blue (or purple) and gold background and with figures in various colours (blue, red, green, yellow etc.); on verso a flowery design in gold and bluish grey within ruled borders.
