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Miniature from Hafiz-i Abru’s Majma al-tawarikh. “Noah’s Ark” Iran (Afghanistan)
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Miniature from Hafiz-i Abru’s Majma al-tawarikh. “Noah’s Ark” Iran (Afghanistan)
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English: Miniature from Hafiz-i Abru’s Majma al-tawarikh. “Noah’s Ark”

Iran (Afghanistan), Herat; c. 1425 Leaf: 42.3 × 32.6 cm Timur’s son Shah Rukh (1405-1447) ordered the historian Hafiz-i Abru to write a continuation of Rashid al-Din’s famous history of the world, Jami al-tawarikh. Like the Il-Khanids, the Timurids were concerned with legitimizing their right to rule, and Hafiz-i Abru’s “A Collection of Histories” covers a period that included the time of Shah Rukh himself.

The style of the manuscript’s miniatures is slightly old-fashioned compared with the otherwise refined Timurid painting, but the scene on the stormy sea is quite dramatic, with the fluttering sail, the ark breaking out of the picture frame, and the swollen bodies. The animals that are to populate the earth are rendered both humorously and fairly realistically.
Date between 1405 and 1447
date QS:P571,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1405-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1447-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q536499
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