مثنوی صفات العاشقين

Walters Ms. W.656, Poem (masnavi)

Walters Ms. W.656, Poem (masnavi)

Ṣifat al-ʿāshiqīn

صفات العاشقين

Nūr al-Dīn Hilālī Jaghatāʾī (author)

نور الدين هلالى جغتائى (author)

Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī (scribe)

This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of a mystic poem (masnavi) entitled Ṣifat al-ʿāshiqīn (Qualities of lovers) by Nūr al-Dīn Hilālī (d. 936 AH / 1529-30 CE). It was written in nastaʿlīq script by Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī in 978 AH / 1570-1 CE. The manuscript opens with a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a), followed by a double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a). Borders throughout the codex are illuminated with floral and bird motifs. The lacquer binding is original to the manuscript. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W656/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Six illustrations; double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a); double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a); illuminated border with floral and bird motifs; illuminated chapter/section headings; framing lines in blue, gold, red, and light blue

fol. 1b Double-page illustrated frontispiece Illustration; frontispiece This is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a festive gathering in a landscape with poets, chess players, and servants preparing food.

fol. 2a Double-page illustrated frontispiece Illustration; frontispiece This is the left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a festive gathering in a landscape with poets, chess players, and servants preparing food.

fol. 8a Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad Illustration

fol. 22a A brave man with a sword killing a lion Illustration

fol. 26b Majnūn among animals in the wilderness Illustration

fol. 31b Sultan Maḥmūd and Ayāz in a landscape Illustration

fol. 48a A festive party with a hunter and his young friends Illustration

fol. 53a A love-struck beggar brings a ball to the king Illustration

978 AH / 1570-1 CE

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

paper

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1570

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