MS 311 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Contents
Summary of Contents: A copy of Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 440 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 370 × 245 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 150 mm.
Layout
Each page of text is set within rules of blue, red, gold, green and red, 29 lines to a page.
Hand(s)
Decoration
The title-page and preface heading and higly decorated.
There are 68 paintings.
Chinese ownership stamp and inscriptions on several guard leaves, eg. ff. 272-273, 327-328.
History
Origin: 1030
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by William Morris.Owned in 1900 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.Bequeathed by him to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1922.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Francis Wormald and Phyllis M. Giles "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum acquired between 1895 and 1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)", Cambridge University Press, 1982; with corrections and additions supplied by Marcus Fraser and Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti.
Availability
The manuscript can be consulted in the Graham Robertson Study room at The Fitzwilliam Museum, on an appointment only basis. To request an appointment, please email collections@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk citing the manuscript number.
Funding of Cataloguing
The Fitzwilliam Museum
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