Memory of the World; 2012 - unesdoc - Unesco

paper makers and cover producers jointly worked for
years to produce a single text. While the collection ranges
from the 14th to the 19th centuries, much of the content
of the muraqqa’ manuscripts was compiled before this.
The copying of famous stories of kings in the shâhnâmeh
or famous poems of Sa’adi and Nezami by famous scribes
safeguarded the original manuscripts from destruction
or disappearance. The collection illuminates the different
styles of the royal ateliers, as guided and dictated by
outstanding calligraphers and painters, and the taste of the
Mosul, the Timurids, the Safavids, the Shaybanids and the
Mughal empires.
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