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Frontispiece from Prince Baysunghur's Anthology of Wise Sayings

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1425

c. 1430

Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Plant fibre/Paper (material); Approved Material 2018/Materials/Colourant (material)/Pigment (material); Approved Material 2018/Inorganic/Metal (material)/Non-ferrous metal/Gold

Paper (material); Pigment (material); Gold

1425

Unknown

Unknown

Chester Beatty Library

Thuluth script

3386

Approved Place 2018/Asia/Central Asia/Afghanistan/Herat

Frontispiece from Prince Baysunghur's Anthology of Wise Sayings. The golden calligraphy at the heart of this elaborate composition describes the main text to follow, a collection of "fine and rare phrases" and "pearls and jewels of ideas", compiled on the orders of Timurid prince Baysunghur (d. 1433), a celebrated book-lover and art patron. Unfortunately the first two pages (CBL Per 120.1 and Per 120.2) are all that now remains. Detached folio, pigments and gold on gold-flecked paper, re-mounted later, Arabic text in thuluth and kufic scripts, ogival medallion with cartouche below, framed within illuminated borders, one half of a double-page composition, frontispiece from an otherwise lost manuscript dedicated to Timurid prince Baysunghur, Herat, Afghanistan, c. 1430.

Manuscript

Frontispiece from Prince Baysunghur's Anthology of Wise Sayings

Per 120

253 mm x 282 mm (height x width)

1425; 1433

Approved Category 2017/Manuscript/Codex/Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

GOOD

Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

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Chester Beatty Library

Arabic (language)

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