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Saadi, Abu Abdullah Musharraf al-Din bin Muslih (religion), Bustan (Fruit Garden)
(سعدي، أبو عبدالله مشرف الدين بن مصلح الدين، بستان حديقة الفاكهة)

Title	Saadi, Abu Abdullah Musharraf al-Din bin Muslih (religion), Bustan (Fruit Garden)
Title Original	سعدي، أبو عبدالله مشرف الدين بن مصلح الدين، بستان حديقة الفاكهة
Publication Date:	c. 937-47 AH / 1530-40 AD
Publication Place	Tabriz - Austrian National Library
Subject	Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Nasta'liq script, 16 lines long.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	250 × 175 مم (نحو 150 × 100 مم)، 76 ورقة (فوليو)
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	A.F. 103
Record ID	object;EPM;at;Mus24;22;ar
Library Location	Austrian National Library
Date	c. 937-47 AH / 1530-40 AD
Notes	Saadi, Abu Abdullah Musharraf al-Din bin Muslih (Al-Din) (died 691 AH / 1292 AD), wrote the book Al-Bustan, which is his first published work. The book includes moral tales intertwined with narratives about the author's travels and various experiences, and it later became one of his most important works. This copy was written in Nasta'liq script in Tabriz around 937–947 AH / around 1530–1540 AD. The manuscript contains five almost full-page pictorial panels. These paintings are reminiscent of the style of the Timurid school in Herat. In 1677, the manuscript was acquired in Constantinople for 36 gold ducats.
Sample Text	Theresa Zischkin “Saadi, Abu Abdullah Musharraf al-Din ibn Muslih (Religion), Bustan (Fruit Garden)” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;22;ar
Cilt	The luxuriously painted lacquer binding has a leather spine and leather edges. On the front cover, a group of people are depicted within a lush garden of flowering shrubs spread across the black background. A prince is sitting behind a spread-out red cloth with plates of food and a jug in the centre. He is holding a golden wine bowl while a kneeling courtier on the left serves a plate of pomegranates. In a semicircle around and above them, various figures sit or stand with drinking vessels or pomegranates in their hands. Below them, on the right, is a (poorly conserved) seated group; on the left are three musicians with a tambourine, a flute, and a lute. All figures wear the Safavid staff turban and a long two-piece robe covered with gold patterns in bright saffron, orange, and red colour as well as in dark green and blue.On the back cover, a courtly hunting scene is depicted within dense foliage and clouds at the top, including archers on horseback chasing lions, panthers, gazelles, and hares, as well as one falconer at the top right. It is a dynamic composition with five riders approaching from different sides, the movement of the horses and gestures of the figures are animated and varied. Fine mother-of-pearl dust is mixed into the colours that comprise the clouds, stones, and rocks. Related lacquer bindings can be found in the British Library (Or. 1374) and in the British Museum (no. 1948 12-11027-8).
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Theresa ZISCHKIN
Seçili bibliyografya	Duda, Dorothea,Islamische Handschriften I. Persische Handschriften, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, vol. 4, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1983: 37-40.

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Saadi, Abu Abdullah Musharraf al-Din bin Muslih (religion), Bustan (Fruit Garden)

(سعدي، أبو عبدالله مشرف الدين بن مصلح الدين، بستان حديقة الفاكهة)

Publication Date c. 937-47 AH / 1530-40 AD

Publication Place Tabriz - Austrian National Library

Subject Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Nasta'liq script, 16 lines long.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 250 × 175 مم (نحو 150 × 100 مم)، 76 ورقة (فوليو)

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID A.F. 103

Record ID object;EPM;at;Mus24;22;ar

Library Location Austrian National Library

Date c. 937-47 AH / 1530-40 AD

Notes Saadi, Abu Abdullah Musharraf al-Din bin Muslih (Al-Din) (died 691 AH / 1292 AD), wrote the book Al-Bustan, which is his first published work. The book includes moral tales intertwined with narratives about the author's travels and various experiences, and it later became one of his most important works. This copy was written in Nasta'liq script in Tabriz around 937–947 AH / around 1530–1540 AD. The manuscript contains five almost full-page pictorial panels. These paintings are reminiscent of the style of the Timurid school in Herat. In 1677, the manuscript was acquired in Constantinople for 36 gold ducats.

Sample Text Theresa Zischkin “Saadi, Abu Abdullah Musharraf al-Din ibn Muslih (Religion), Bustan (Fruit Garden)” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;22;ar

Cilt The luxuriously painted lacquer binding has a leather spine and leather edges. On the front cover, a group of people are depicted within a lush garden of flowering shrubs spread across the black background. A prince is sitting behind a spread-out red cloth with plates of food and a jug in the centre. He is holding a golden wine bowl while a kneeling courtier on the left serves a plate of pomegranates. In a semicircle around and above them, various figures sit or stand with drinking vessels or pomegranates in their hands. Below them, on the right, is a (poorly conserved) seated group; on the left are three musicians with a tambourine, a flute, and a lute. All figures wear the Safavid staff turban and a long two-piece robe covered with gold patterns in bright saffron, orange, and red colour as well as in dark green and blue.On the back cover, a courtly hunting scene is depicted within dense foliage and clouds at the top, including archers on horseback chasing lions, panthers, gazelles, and hares, as well as one falconer at the top right. It is a dynamic composition with five riders approaching from different sides, the movement of the horses and gestures of the figures are animated and varied. Fine mother-of-pearl dust is mixed into the colours that comprise the clouds, stones, and rocks. Related lacquer bindings can be found in the British Library (Or. 1374) and in the British Museum (no. 1948 12-11027-8).

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Theresa ZISCHKIN

Seçili bibliyografya Duda, Dorothea,Islamische Handschriften I. Persische Handschriften, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, vol. 4, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1983: 37-40.