The poet in his library garden, colophon folio from the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by Jāmī

Name: The poet in his library garden, colophon folio from the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by Jāmī
Author: Mushfiq

İsim	The poet in his library garden, colophon folio from the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by Jāmī
Yazar	Mushfiq
Basım Tarihi:	1606
Tür	Resim
Dil	Arapça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Pompeu Fabra Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi
Kayıt Numarası	cdi_europeana_collections_1100_4491
Lokasyon	Available Online
Tarih	1606
Örnek Metin	The poet in his library garden, final folio from the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by Jāmī (d. 1492). This page of Persian poetry comes from a book entitled the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj), which is also at Chester Beatty (CBL In 20). The Five Treasures in the title are selected from the Seven Thrones (Haft Awrang), an anthology of seven great works composed by the Persian Sufi poet and statesman `Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 1492), who lived in Herat (Afghanistan) under the Timurid dynasty. The book has seen two major phases of production, as well as several shifts in political history. The text was written out by the great master calligrapher Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī in 1520, the final year of his life. His career had overlapped with that of Jāmī, and the two must have known of each other in Herat, where they both served the Timurid ruler Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā (d. 1506). According to an additional note in the manuscript, it took the calligrapher twelve years to write out the full text, during which time Timurid Herat fell to the Uzbek Shaybanids, and Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī retired back to Mashhad (in Iran). By the time he finished, the calligrapher’s initial patron prince Badī` al-Zamān Mīrzā (d. 1514) was long dead, and the book was gifted by a Barlas amir (Mīrzā `Alī Beg, son of a Timurid court official) to the Safavid shah Ismā`īl, in 1522-3. A major transformation came in the early seventeenth century, when the book belonged to the commander-in-chief of the Mughal army in India, `Abd al-Raḥīm Khānkhānān (d. 1627). A renowned book-collector, he ordered a dramatic refurbishment of this already highly-regarded manuscript: the artist Mushfiq added exquisite tiny paintings into the blank spaces between the text-columns throughout, and lively gold-stencilled borders of deep colour were added around the original Persian text. It was probably at this stage that this final folio was created - not just for the borders and Mushfiq's paintings, but for the text itself which is in a different hand to Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī's work in the rest of the manuscript. The Khānkhānān's embellishment was completed in 1606-7, and in 1624 the owner presented it to the Mughal ruler Jahāngīr, for the imperial library. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian poetry and tapering colophon statement in nasta`liq script, with tiny painting of shepherd with sheep inserted around text-columns, main scene of a scholar (the poet Jāmī?) in his library garden, and borders with gold-outlined stencilled designs of birds catching insects in foliage, final page of the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by `Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 1492), this final folio probably added to complete the 1606-7 refurbishment of the 1520 manuscript, text inscribed as the work of Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī (who copied the rest of the codex, probably in Herat, Afghanistan and then Mashhad, Iran), borders and paintings added for later owner `Abd al-Raḥīm Khānkhānān (d. 1627), India, dated 1015H, 1606-1607.
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The poet in his library garden, colophon folio from the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by Jāmī

Yazar Mushfiq

Basım Tarihi 1606

Tür Resim

Dil Arapça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Pompeu Fabra Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi

Kayıt Numarası cdi_europeana_collections_1100_4491

Lokasyon Available Online

Tarih 1606

Örnek Metin The poet in his library garden, final folio from the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by Jāmī (d. 1492). This page of Persian poetry comes from a book entitled the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj), which is also at Chester Beatty (CBL In 20). The Five Treasures in the title are selected from the Seven Thrones (Haft Awrang), an anthology of seven great works composed by the Persian Sufi poet and statesman `Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 1492), who lived in Herat (Afghanistan) under the Timurid dynasty. The book has seen two major phases of production, as well as several shifts in political history. The text was written out by the great master calligrapher Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī in 1520, the final year of his life. His career had overlapped with that of Jāmī, and the two must have known of each other in Herat, where they both served the Timurid ruler Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā (d. 1506). According to an additional note in the manuscript, it took the calligrapher twelve years to write out the full text, during which time Timurid Herat fell to the Uzbek Shaybanids, and Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī retired back to Mashhad (in Iran). By the time he finished, the calligrapher’s initial patron prince Badī` al-Zamān Mīrzā (d. 1514) was long dead, and the book was gifted by a Barlas amir (Mīrzā `Alī Beg, son of a Timurid court official) to the Safavid shah Ismā`īl, in 1522-3. A major transformation came in the early seventeenth century, when the book belonged to the commander-in-chief of the Mughal army in India, `Abd al-Raḥīm Khānkhānān (d. 1627). A renowned book-collector, he ordered a dramatic refurbishment of this already highly-regarded manuscript: the artist Mushfiq added exquisite tiny paintings into the blank spaces between the text-columns throughout, and lively gold-stencilled borders of deep colour were added around the original Persian text. It was probably at this stage that this final folio was created - not just for the borders and Mushfiq's paintings, but for the text itself which is in a different hand to Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī's work in the rest of the manuscript. The Khānkhānān's embellishment was completed in 1606-7, and in 1624 the owner presented it to the Mughal ruler Jahāngīr, for the imperial library. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian poetry and tapering colophon statement in nasta`liq script, with tiny painting of shepherd with sheep inserted around text-columns, main scene of a scholar (the poet Jāmī?) in his library garden, and borders with gold-outlined stencilled designs of birds catching insects in foliage, final page of the Five Treasures (Panj Ganj) by `Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 1492), this final folio probably added to complete the 1606-7 refurbishment of the 1520 manuscript, text inscribed as the work of Sulṭān `Alī Mashhadī (who copied the rest of the codex, probably in Herat, Afghanistan and then Mashhad, Iran), borders and paintings added for later owner `Abd al-Raḥīm Khānkhānān (d. 1627), India, dated 1015H, 1606-1607.

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