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Medieval Collection
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Image Number:
Bookreader Persian MS 46
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Reference Number:
Persian MS 46
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Persian MS 46
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Parent Work Title:
Bahāristān-i Jāmī
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Bahāristān-i Jāmī
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Creator:
Jāmī, 1414-1492
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Jāmī, 1414-1492
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Creator Role:
Author
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Author
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Date Created:
1498 [903 AH]
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1498 [903 AH]
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Description:
The Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492) originally composed the Bahāristān (Spring Garden) in 892 AH (1487 CE). Modelled upon the Gulistān (Rose Garden) of Saʻdī, the work is divided into eight chapters or 'gardens' (rawżah) devoted to Sufi saints and philosophers, the topics of justice, generosity, love, and comedy, as well as a highly esteemed section on poetic literature, and the last regarding animals. This manuscript is the earliest of several copies held in the John Rylands Library, and was completed eleven years after the original in 903 AH (1498 CE). It opens with a pair of elegantly illuminated roundels, the second stating the name of the patron, Fāiḳ Pāşā, likely a little-known Ottoman vizier appointed late in the second reign of Sultan Mehmed II (r. 1444–1446; 1551–1581) into that of his son and successor Sultan Beyazid II (r. 1481–1512). The phrasing referencing an imaret along with a prayer for the longevity of his buildings, suggests it was copied for his pious charitable building complex that he commenced constructing in 898 AH (1492–93 CE), in Narda (now Arka, Greece), of which a mosque still survives today. The volume was magnificently rebound in an Islamic-inspired style but using European methods, probably for subsequent owner French orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838) in Paris; however, it still retains a late Ottoman period protective leather pouch that is lavishly embroidered with silver and silk threads.
description
The Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492) originally composed the Bahāristān (Spring Garden) in 892 AH (1487 CE). Modelled upon the Gulistān (Rose Garden) of Saʻdī, the work is divided into eight chapters or 'gardens' (rawżah) devoted to Sufi saints and philosophers, the topics of justice, generosity, love, and comedy, as well as a highly esteemed section on poetic literature, and the last regarding animals. This manuscript is the earliest of several copies held in the John Rylands Library, and was completed eleven years after the original in 903 AH (1498 CE). It opens with a pair of elegantly illuminated roundels, the second stating the name of the patron, Fāiḳ Pāşā, likely a little-known Ottoman vizier appointed late in the second reign of Sultan Mehmed II (r. 1444–1446; 1551–1581) into that of his son and successor Sultan Beyazid II (r. 1481–1512). The phrasing referencing an imaret along with a prayer for the longevity of his buildings, suggests it was copied for his pious charitable building complex that he commenced constructing in 898 AH (1492–93 CE), in Narda (now Arka, Greece), of which a mosque still survives today. The volume was magnificently rebound in an Islamic-inspired style but using European methods, probably for subsequent owner French orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838) in Paris; however, it still retains a late Ottoman period protective leather pouch that is lavishly embroidered with silver and silk threads.
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Language:
Persian
Subject:
Persian poetry
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Persian poetry
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Subject:
Persian literature
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Persian literature
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Category of Material:
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
Codex
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Codex
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Technique Used:
Handwriting
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Medium:
Paint
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Paint
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Support:
Paper
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Paper
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Item Height:
195 mm
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195 mm
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Item Width:
145 mm
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145 mm
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Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2020-10-15
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2021-03
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
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Medieval
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