Category:Kalila and Dimna, 1307, Shiraz (British Library Or.13506)

Kalila and Dimna of 1307 (British Library Or.13506), possibly Shiraz.

"The miniatures in Or. 13506 are very simple, almost primitive, but here for the first time can be seen features previously found in thirteenth-century Seljuq and Mesopotamian (Northern Iraq) paintings and, equally or more important, certain characteristics of the Inju style of the 1330S and 1340s. The Inju style is a provincial one and its origins were generally thought to have derived from wall-paintings. It is a most distinctive style (fig. i) which arose under the Inju dynasty and then disappeared after their conquest of the Muzaffarids in 1356-7." An illustrated Persian text of Kalila and Dimna dated 707/1307-8 Waley, P. Titley, Norah M. 1975 p.43

"Among the characteristics of the miniatures are the red backgrounds, the floral textile designs, the conical hills, and, on the illuminated folios, borders of a lotus-petal design." An illustrated Persian text of Kalila and Dimna dated 707/1307-8 Waley, P. Titley, Norah M. 1975 p.44