دو اثر منظوم؛ یوسف و زلیخا از جامی، مهر و مهشتری از عصار تبریزی

Walters Ms. W.645, Two poetical works: Yusuf and Zulaykha and Mihr and Mushtari

Walters Ms. W.645, Two poetical works: Yusuf and Zulaykha and Mihr and Mushtari

Yūsuf va Zulaykhā

Mihr va Mushtarī

يوسف وزليخا

مهر ومشترى

Jāmī, 1414-1492 (author)

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Jāmī (author)

نور الدين عبد الرحمان بن احمد جامى (author)

ʻAṣṣār Tabrīzī, Muḥammad, d. 1382 or 3 (author)

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ʿAṣṣār Tabrīzī (author)

محمد بن احمد عصار تبريزى (author)

This illuminated and illustrated Safavid manuscript, executed in Safavid Iran in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, contains two poetical works: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE) and Mihr va Mushtarī by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ‘Aṣṣār Tabrīzī (d. 784 AH / 1382 CE). The two texts can be read side by side on the same page, either written horizontally or obliquely. There are four paintings illustrating the text (fols. 58b, 91a, 159a, and 180b). The brown leather binding with dentelle-style decoration in multi-colored filigree work may date to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, although it is unlikely to be original to the manuscript. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W645/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Two illustrations; one surviving half of a double-page illuminated frontispiece with information about the works and the incipits (fol.1a); decorated double frame and various geometrically shaped decorated panels within the text; framing lines in blue, red, gold, green, and light blue

Two illustrations; one surviving half of a double-page illuminated frontispiece with information about the works and the incipits (fol.1a); decorated double frame and various geometrically shaped decorated panels within the text; framing lines in blue, red, gold, green, and light blue

fol. 1a Double-page illuminated frontispiece Frontispiece; incipit This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece. (The left side does not survive.) The initial lines of the texts are inscribed in the central medallion and pendants in white nastaʿlīq script on a blue background.

fol. 58b The vizier of Egypt comes to meet Zulaykhā Illustration

fol. 91a Mihr and his friends slaughter dog- and wolf-headed cannibals Illustration

fol. 159a Qarā Khān, king of Samarqand, defeated by Mihr Illustration On the left side of this page Qarā Khān, king of Samarqand, is defeated by Mihr, who fights on the side of King Kayvān, Nāhīd’s father.

fol. 180b The wedding festivities of Yūsuf and Zulaykhā Illustration

10th century AH / 16th CE

Oval seal: ʿAbduhu Muḥammad Kāẓim (fol. 113b)

Square seal: ʿIṣmat Zīnat Sulṭān, dated 12[?]49 AH / 1833 CE (fol. 114a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

paper

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