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Poetry (and Prose) in Motion: Illuminated Manuscripts from Late Fourteenth-Century Shiraz

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Persian arts of the book conference 13-14 July 2021
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A short talk about illuminated manuscripts produced in late fourteenth-century Shiraz, including several in the Bodleian Collections and elsewhere

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The Future of the Past: poetry, portraiture, and the reception of antiquity in a Timurid Shahnama

This talk focuses on fifteenth-century paintings and poetry inserted into the Shahnama of Ibrahim Sultan (Bodleian Library MS. Ouseley Add. 176) in order to explore the correlation between portraiture and historical self-awareness
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Persian arts of the book conference 13-14 July 2021
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Cailah Jackson
Keywords
Persian arts
Department: Bodleian Library
Date Added: 29/07/2021
Duration: 00:17:35

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