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Burning and Melting

Title	Burning and Melting
Author	Muhammad Riza Naw'i Khabushani (died 1019 AH/AD 1610), Ibn Sayyid Murad al-Husayni, Muhammad `Ali Naqqash Mashhadi
Publication Date:	1068 AH/AD 1657 (Safavid; Mughal)
Publication Place	Iran (Place of Origin) -
Subject	Manuscripts and Rare Books, Islamic World, Islamic Manuscripts
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	Folio H: 9 1/4 x W: 5 11/16 in. (23.5 x 14.5 cm)
Library:	The Walters Art Museum
Record ID	W.649
Library Location	Not on view
Date	1068 AH/AD 1657 (Safavid; Mughal)
Notes	Walters manuscript W.649 is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the poem Suz va gudaz (Burning and melting) by Naw'i Khabushani (d. 1019 AH/AD 1610), which recounts the love story of a Hindu girl who burns herself on the funeral pyre of her betrothed. The codex was written in Nasta'liq in black ink by Ibn Sayyid Murad al-Husayni and illustrated by Muhammad 'Ali Mashhadi in 1068 AH/AD 1657. According to the colophon, Ibn Sayyid Murad al-Husayni copied the manuscript for the painter Muhammad 'Ali, the "Mani of the time," as a "souvenir." The fact that the manuscript was produced for one of the most prolific artists of 17th-century Iran makes it a highly significant document. It opens with an illuminated incipit with headpiece (fol. 1b) and closes with an illuminated tailpiece with colophon (fol. 21b). Text pages have interlinear illumination and small rectangular and triangular pieces with polychrome floral and scrolling vine motifs. There are 8 miniatures in a style associated with the Safavid centers of artistic production of Mashhad and Isfahan (fols. 5a, 9a, 10b, 13a, 14a, 16a, 17b, and 19b).
Sergi Ayrıntıları	Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
Sergi Yılı	2010
Bağış/Edinim	Acquired by Henry Walters

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Burning and Melting

Author Muhammad Riza Naw'i Khabushani (died 1019 AH/AD 1610), Ibn Sayyid Murad al-Husayni, Muhammad `Ali Naqqash Mashhadi

Publication Date 1068 AH/AD 1657 (Safavid; Mughal)

Publication Place Iran (Place of Origin) -

Subject Manuscripts and Rare Books, Islamic World, Islamic Manuscripts

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions Folio H: 9 1/4 x W: 5 11/16 in. (23.5 x 14.5 cm)

Library The Walters Art Museum

Record ID W.649

Library Location Not on view

Date 1068 AH/AD 1657 (Safavid; Mughal)

Notes Walters manuscript W.649 is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the poem Suz va gudaz (Burning and melting) by Naw'i Khabushani (d. 1019 AH/AD 1610), which recounts the love story of a Hindu girl who burns herself on the funeral pyre of her betrothed. The codex was written in Nasta'liq in black ink by Ibn Sayyid Murad al-Husayni and illustrated by Muhammad 'Ali Mashhadi in 1068 AH/AD 1657. According to the colophon, Ibn Sayyid Murad al-Husayni copied the manuscript for the painter Muhammad 'Ali, the "Mani of the time," as a "souvenir." The fact that the manuscript was produced for one of the most prolific artists of 17th-century Iran makes it a highly significant document. It opens with an illuminated incipit with headpiece (fol. 1b) and closes with an illuminated tailpiece with colophon (fol. 21b). Text pages have interlinear illumination and small rectangular and triangular pieces with polychrome floral and scrolling vine motifs. There are 8 miniatures in a style associated with the Safavid centers of artistic production of Mashhad and Isfahan (fols. 5a, 9a, 10b, 13a, 14a, 16a, 17b, and 19b).

Sergi Ayrıntıları Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Sergi Yılı 2010

Bağış/Edinim Acquired by Henry Walters