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The poet and his friend sitting by a stream, from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, or Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī (d. 1318)

Title	The poet and his friend sitting by a stream, from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, or Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī (d. 1318)
Publication Date:	c. 1450, borders added c. 1540-1549
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	162 mm x 104 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 149.39
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	c. 1450, borders added c. 1540-1549
Notes	The poet and his friend sitting by a stream, from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, or Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī (d. 1318). The poet and the younger man sit together by a silver-painted stream, beside a tiled pavilion with one door open. Behind them, the landscape echoes their respective ages, with a leafy mature tree beside a flowering fruit tree. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, re-mounted in gold-painted blue borders, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on verso), from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, also called Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī Fakhr al-Sādāt (d. 1318, Herat), from a collection (majmū`a) of Persian poetry, dedicated to Timurid ruler Abū Sa`īd (r. 1451-69), decorated borders added later by order of Shaybanid ruler `Abd al-Azīz (r. 1540-1549), probably produced in Herat, Afghanistan, c. 1450, with borders added in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, c. 1540-1549
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi	Nasta`liq script

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The poet and his friend sitting by a stream, from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, or Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī (d. 1318)

Publication Date c. 1450, borders added c. 1540-1549

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 162 mm x 104 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 149.39

Library Location Persian collection

Date c. 1450, borders added c. 1540-1549

Notes The poet and his friend sitting by a stream, from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, or Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī (d. 1318). The poet and the younger man sit together by a silver-painted stream, beside a tiled pavilion with one door open. Behind them, the landscape echoes their respective ages, with a leafy mature tree beside a flowering fruit tree. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, re-mounted in gold-painted blue borders, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on verso), from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, also called Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī Fakhr al-Sādāt (d. 1318, Herat), from a collection (majmū`a) of Persian poetry, dedicated to Timurid ruler Abū Sa`īd (r. 1451-69), decorated borders added later by order of Shaybanid ruler `Abd al-Azīz (r. 1540-1549), probably produced in Herat, Afghanistan, c. 1450, with borders added in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, c. 1540-1549

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

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Yazı Tipi Nasta`liq script