Yazar
Mashhad
Basım Tarihi
Calligraphy 1520 (926H), painting and borders 1606-1607 (1015H)
Tür
Belge
Dil
Farsça
Dijital
Evet
Yazma
Evet
Fiziksel Boyutlar
324 mm x 207 mm (height x width)
Kütüphane
Chester Beatty
Kayıt Numarası
In 20.62
Lokasyon
Indian collection
Tarih
Calligraphy 1520 (926H), painting and borders 1606-1607 (1015H)
Notlar
Corner details of reader, birds and flowers, folio from the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by Jāmī (d. 1492). This page of Persian poetry comes from a book entitled the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj), which is also at Chester Beatty (CBL In 20). The Five Treasures in the title are selected from the Seven Thrones (Haft Awrang), an anthology of seven great works composed by the Persian Sufi poet and statesman `Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 1492), who lived in Herat (Afghanistan) under the Timurid dynasty. The book has seen two major phases of production, as well as several shifts in political history. The text was written out by the great master calligrapher Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī in 1520, the final year of his life. His career had overlapped with that of Jāmī, and the two must have known of each other in Herat, where they both served the Timurid ruler Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā (d. 1506). According to an additional note in the manuscript, it took the calligrapher twelve years to write out the full text, during which time Timurid Herat fell to the Uzbek Shaybanids, and Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī retired back to Mashhad (in Iran). By the time he finished, the calligrapher’s initial patron prince Badī` al-Zamān Mīrzā (d. 1514) was long dead, and the book was gifted by a Barlas amir (Mīrzā `Alī Beg, son of a Timurid court official) to the Safavid shah Ismā`īl, in 1522-3. A major transformation came in the early seventeenth century, when the book belonged to the commander-in-chief of the Mughal army in India, `Abd al-Raḥīm Khānkhānān (d. 1627). A renowned book-collector, he ordered a dramatic refurbishment of this already highly-regarded manuscript: the artist Mushfiq added exquisite tiny paintings into the blank spaces between the text-columns throughout, and lively gold-stencilled borders of deep colour were added around the original Persian text. This embellishment was completed in 1606-7, and in 1624 the owner presented it to the Mughal ruler Jahāngīr, for the imperial library. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, with tiny paintings of a seated reader and birds (recto) and birds and flowers (verso) inserted between text-columns, and borders with gold-outlined stencilled designs of birds, fish, insects and plants, Rosary of the Pious (Subḥat al-abrār) with Yusuf and Zulaykhā written diagonally in the margin, from the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by `Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 1492), text copied by Sultan `Ali Mashhadi, probably starting in Herat (Afghanistan) and completing in Mashhad, Iran, dated 15 Dhu'l-Hijja 920H (signature and date on In 20.46r), 26 November 1520, with the borders and paintings added for later owner `Abd al-Raḥīm Khānkhānān (d. 1627), India, dated 1015H, 1606-1607.
Materyal
Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı
Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi
Nasta'liq script
