Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 12. (Budapest, 1970)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Unger, Edmund: A Recently Discovered Persian Manuscript from the 14th Century

You will also notice the rich palette of colours and the ample use of gold. One of the interesting aspects of the miniatures is the realistic depiction of nature. The flowers and the trees are carefully observed, the tufts and holyhocks all remind us of a later period of Persian painting. The armour of the figures is that worn in the fourteenth century. It is the Mongolian style. The swords are straight which again was the type in use in the fourteenth century. The painter has not yet solved the problem of the sitting arrangement of the figures in the way it occurs in the Kitab al-Bulham for example. The figures crouch and look anything but natural while sitting (fig. 4). They remind one of the figures on the Minai ceramics. I have compared the Manuscript with two other manuscripts. One is the Kitab al-Bulham dated 1399 at the Bodleian and the other is the Quazwini Aja'ib al-Makhluqat dated 1388 which is in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.