29.2015: Manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan (Selections from the Bustan by Sa`di)
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 29.2015
- Title
- Manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan (Selections from the Bustan by Sa`di)
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript
- Date
- c. 1550-1600
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Safavid period
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/352104
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink, colors, and gold on paper; stamped and gilded leather binding
- Dimensions
- 22.5 × 15 cm (8 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Ezzat-Malek Soudavar, Geneva, Switzerland (by 2014), by descent; to her son Abolala Soudavar, Houston, Texas (2014), loan; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015.
Note:
Ezzat-Malek Soudavar (1913-2014) formed this collection over a period of sixty years. She purchased the works of art on the international art market.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar
- Object Number
- 29.2015
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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The manuscript opens with an exquisitely illuminated sarlawh above the text which is copied in two columns and 14 lines to a page in nasta`liq. According to the colophon the manuscript was copied by Mir Sayyid Ahmad al-Husayni who, based on a note on the first folio, was a pupil of Mir ‘Ali (Haravi). The text area is finely gold speckled.
The binding is decorated with large-plate stamped and gilt leather covers, and the doublures are decorated with filigrees over colored paper ground; however, most filigrees have been damaged over time.
Related Objects
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The illuminated sarlawh; notes and seals (notes and seals recto; sarlawh verso of folio 1), from a manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan by Sa`di
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- Title
Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 2), from a manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan by Sa`di
- Classification
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Folio (text recto, text verso of folio 13), from a manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan by Sa`di
- Classification
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Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 23), from a manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan by Sa`di
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Inspection notes and poems in later hands (text recto; later notes verso of folio 24), from a manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan by Sa`di
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