Iranian Academy of Arts (IAA) Director Ali Moallem Damghani, painter Aidin Aghdashlu, and Persian calligraphy scholar Alireza Hasheminejad wrote prefaces to the book, which was published by the IAA.
The manuscript contains three collections of couplets that Khwaju Kermani composed during the two last decades of his life.
The book includes Homay o Homayun with 4435 couplets and dated 1331, Rowzat al-Anwar with 2037 couplets that was completed in 1342, and Kamal-nama with 1884 couplets and dated 1343.
Two of the greatest medieval Persian artists, calligrapher Mir Ali of Tabriz and miniaturist Jonayd created the manuscript in Baghdad in 1396.
The calligraphy that was used in the manuscript can be considered as one of the early examples of the nastaliq style of Persian calligraphy.
Due to their compositions and designs, the nine illustrations of the book opened up a new season in Iranian miniature painting, which were a source of inspiration for many other manuscripts, including “The Shahnameh of Baysunqur”, that were created later.
Khwaju Kermani was born in Kerman and died in Shiraz, where his tomb is still in situ at the Quran Gate near the Allaho-Akbar Pass.
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