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Frontispiece from Prince Baysunghur's Anthology of Wise Sayings

Title	Frontispiece from Prince Baysunghur's Anthology of Wise Sayings
Publication Date:	c. 1430
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	253 mm x 282 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 120
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	c. 1430
Notes	Frontispiece from Prince Baysunghur's Anthology of Wise Sayings. The golden calligraphy at the heart of this elaborate composition describes the main text to follow, a collection of "fine and rare phrases" and "pearls and jewels of ideas", compiled on the orders of Timurid prince Baysunghur (d. 1433), a celebrated book-lover and art patron. Unfortunately the first two pages (CBL Per 120.1 and Per 120.2) are all that now remains. Detached folio, pigments and gold on gold-flecked paper, re-mounted later, Arabic text in thuluth and kufic scripts, ogival medallion with cartouche below, framed within illuminated borders, one half of a double-page composition, frontispiece from an otherwise lost manuscript dedicated to Timurid prince Baysunghur, Herat, Afghanistan, c. 1430.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi	Thuluth script

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Frontispiece from Prince Baysunghur's Anthology of Wise Sayings

Publication Date c. 1430

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 253 mm x 282 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 120

Library Location Persian collection

Date c. 1430

Notes Frontispiece from Prince Baysunghur's Anthology of Wise Sayings. The golden calligraphy at the heart of this elaborate composition describes the main text to follow, a collection of "fine and rare phrases" and "pearls and jewels of ideas", compiled on the orders of Timurid prince Baysunghur (d. 1433), a celebrated book-lover and art patron. Unfortunately the first two pages (CBL Per 120.1 and Per 120.2) are all that now remains. Detached folio, pigments and gold on gold-flecked paper, re-mounted later, Arabic text in thuluth and kufic scripts, ogival medallion with cartouche below, framed within illuminated borders, one half of a double-page composition, frontispiece from an otherwise lost manuscript dedicated to Timurid prince Baysunghur, Herat, Afghanistan, c. 1430.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Yazı Tipi Thuluth script