Folio from Divan (collected poems) by Sultan Husayn Mirza (d.1506)

Object Details

• Author

  Sultan Husayn Mirza (1470-1506)

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Divan (collected poems) by Sultan Husayn Mirza; Eastern Turkish in white nasta'liq script with the title in an illuminated band; verses of poem executed in qat' (cut-out technique); one of a group of two folios (with F.1929.66).

  Border: Folio is mounted on a green ground, set in red, gold, blue and white rulings on gold-sprinkled paper.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Nasta’liq: The Genius of Persian Calligraphy (Saturday, September 13, 2014 - Sunday, May 03, 2015)

  Arts of the Islamic World (May 3, 1998 to January 3, 2016)

  Nastaliq Calligraphy (September 23, 1982 to January 20, 1984)

  Untitled Exhibition, South Asian and Persian Art (March 24, 1930 to March 14, 1931)

• Origin

  Herat, Afghanistan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1400s

• Name

  Husayn Mirza, Sultan

• Place

  Afghanistan, Herat

• Topic

  Art, Timurid period (1378 - 1506), Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination

• Culture

  Muslims

• Language

  Nasta?li-q script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts