Author
Bukhara
Publication Date
c. 1570 (manuscript folio), 1616 (1025H, painting)
Type
Document
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
324 mm x 213 mm (height x width)
Library
Chester Beatty
Record ID
Per 297.16
Library Location
Persian collection
Date
c. 1570 (manuscript folio), 1616 (1025H, painting)
Notes
Prince in conversation with a dervish, from the Garden (Būstān) by Sa`dī (d. 1291). Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with full page painting (on recto), illuminated text frames and gold-painted cream borders, from the Garden (Būstān) by Sa`dī (d. 1291), text copied by Mīr Ṣāliḥ Kātib (colophon fol. 182r, in codex Per 297), Bukhara, c. 1570, painting attributed Muḥammad Sharīf, one of eleven paintings added to the older manuscript (according to dated inscription across the lintel here) for the library (kitābkhāna) of Hidāyat ibn Mīr Mu`īn al-Dīn Khwāja `Abd al-Raḥīm Juybarī (d. 1628), possibly at the dynastic Sufi shrine complex of Char Bakr, Sumitan, near Bukhara, Uzbekistan, dated 1025H, 1616.
Materyal
Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı
Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi
Nasta`liq script