Label:Walters Ms. W.620, The orchard (Bustan)
Title:Walters Ms. W.620, The orchard (Bustan), Kitāb-i būstān, كتاب بوستان
Contributor:Saʿdī (author), Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣliḥ Saʿdī Shīrāzī (author), مشرف الدين بن مصلح سعدي شيرازي (author)
Description:This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the Būstān (The garden or The orchard), composed by Sa’dī (d. 691 AH / 1292 CE). It was written in black nasta’līq script in the ninth century AH / sixteenth CE in Iran. The codex opens with a frontispiece with the title Kitāb-i būstān inscribed in an illuminated medallion (fol. 1a), followed by a double-page illustration of a banquet scene in a landscape (fols. 1b-2a). Additionally, there are five paintings illustrating the text (fols. 25a, 55b, 58a, 93b, and 119b). The brown leather, blind-stamped binding decorated with a central oval and pendants is not contemporary with the manuscript.
For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W620/description.html, The primary language in this manuscript is Persian., Five illustrations (fols. 25a, 55b, 58a, 93b, and 119b); illuminated frontispiece with the title Kitāb-i būstān inscribed in the medallion (fol. 1a); double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a); double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a); framing lines in blue, black, and gold, fol. 1a Illuminated frontispiece with medallion Frontispiece; medallion This illuminated frontispiece is inscribed with the title Kitāb-i būstān in the polychrome and gold medallion (shamsah)., fol. 1b Double-page illustrated frontispiece Frontispiece; illustration This is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a banquet in a landscape., fol. 2a Double-page illustrated frontispiece Frontispiece; illustration This is the left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a banquet in a landscape., fol. 2b Double-page illuminated incipit Incipit This is the right side of a double-page illuminated incipit introducing the text of the Būstān. Allāh al-Bāqī is inscribed in the lower cartouche in a decorated New Abbasid (broken cursive) style., fol. 3a Double-page illuminated incipit Incipit This is the left side of a double-page illuminated incipit introducing the text of the Būstān. Allāh wa-lā siwāhu and al-Shukr li-Llāh ta`ālá are inscribed in the cartouches in a decorated New Abbasid (broken cursive) style., fol. 25a Darius, the Persian king, meeting his herdsman while hunting Illustration, fol. 55b An old man, who pulled out a thorn from the foot of an orphan, meeting his friend Illustration, fol. 58a Banquet scene in a landscape Illustration, fol. 93b A man advised by village elders to divorce his wife because of their constant quarreling Illustration, fol. 119b Saʿdī and another man visiting Shāṭir Iṣfāhānī Illustration, 9th century AH / 15th CE, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Language:Persian
Format:paper, image/jpeg
Date:1401
Attribution:All Walters manuscript images and descriptions provided here are copyrighted © The Walters Art Museum.