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Preparing the palace feast, from the Garden (Bustān), by Sa`di

Title	Preparing the palace feast, from the Garden (Bustān), by Sa`di
Author	Bukhara
Publication Date:	c. 1570 (manuscript folio), c. 1616 (painting)
Type	Document
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	324 mm x 212 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 297.184
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	c. 1570 (manuscript folio), c. 1616 (painting)
Notes	Preparing the palace feast, from the Garden (Bustān), by Sa`di. This busy scene shows palace cooks working to prepare and serve up a feast. A fire blazes under a cauldron, while the cook skins a carcass for a meat stew, and a row of covered dishes waits on the grass. On the lower left, a dervish and child beg for food. On the right, servants line up to enter the palace: this painting is the left half of a double page scene, and the opposite page (fol. 183v, in the codex, Per 297) shows the prince and his guests inside the palace. Folio, colours and gold on paper, painting (on recto, attributed Muhammad Murad Samarqandi, left side of a double-page composition), from the Garden (Bustān), by Sa`di, copied by Mir Salih al-Katib, possibly Bukhara, Uzbekistan, c. 1570, this painting one of eleven later added, for the library (kitabkhana) of Hidayat ibn Mir Mu`in al-Din Khwaja `Abd al-Rahim Juybari (d. 1628), possibly at the dynastic Sufi shrine complex of Char Bakr, Sumitan, near Bukhara, Uzbekistan, c. 1616.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

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Preparing the palace feast, from the Garden (Bustān), by Sa`di

Author Bukhara

Publication Date c. 1570 (manuscript folio), c. 1616 (painting)

Type Document

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 324 mm x 212 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 297.184

Library Location Persian collection

Date c. 1570 (manuscript folio), c. 1616 (painting)

Notes Preparing the palace feast, from the Garden (Bustān), by Sa`di. This busy scene shows palace cooks working to prepare and serve up a feast. A fire blazes under a cauldron, while the cook skins a carcass for a meat stew, and a row of covered dishes waits on the grass. On the lower left, a dervish and child beg for food. On the right, servants line up to enter the palace: this painting is the left half of a double page scene, and the opposite page (fol. 183v, in the codex, Per 297) shows the prince and his guests inside the palace. Folio, colours and gold on paper, painting (on recto, attributed Muhammad Murad Samarqandi, left side of a double-page composition), from the Garden (Bustān), by Sa`di, copied by Mir Salih al-Katib, possibly Bukhara, Uzbekistan, c. 1570, this painting one of eleven later added, for the library (kitabkhana) of Hidayat ibn Mir Mu`in al-Din Khwaja `Abd al-Rahim Juybari (d. 1628), possibly at the dynastic Sufi shrine complex of Char Bakr, Sumitan, near Bukhara, Uzbekistan, c. 1616.

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

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)