برگی از منطق‌الطیر عطار، «سوگواری پسری در مرگ پدر»

Walters Ms. W.678, Single leaf from Mantiq al-tayr by Farid al-din `Attar

Walters Ms. W.678, Single leaf from Mantiq al-tayr by Farid al-din `Attar

Manṭiq al-ṭayr

منطق الطير

ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, ca. 1230 (author)

Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār, d. 618 AH / 1221 CE (author)

فريد الدين عطار (author)

Bihzād (artist)

This Timurid leaf depicting a funeral procession is from a copy of Manṭiq al-ṭayr (The language of the birds) by the Persian Sufi poet Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (d. 618 AH / 1221 CE). It represents a son’s lamentation at his father’s funeral. The parent manuscript was likely produced in Timurid Herat or Bukhara in the late ninth century AH / fifteenth CE. There are fewer than ten known illustrated copies of the Manṭiq al-ṭayr. In the bottom right corner is a later attribution to the famous Persian artist Bihzād (d. 942 AH / 1536-7 CE). The painting is surrounded by a biscuit-colored, gold-sprinkled border. The Walters' leaf is comparable to the same scene illustrated in the copy housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (63.210.35). For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W678/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Biscuit-colored, gold-sprinkled border (trimmed)

fol. W.678a Son’s lamentation at his father’s funeral Illustration In the bottom right corner is a later attribution to the famous Persian artist Bihzād (d. 942 AH / 1536-7 CE). The inscription reads ʿamal-i Bihzād … [?].

fol. W.678b Son’s lamentation at his father’s funeral (back) Back

Late 9th century AH / 15th CE

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

paper

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