Folio from a Rawzat al-safa (Garden of felicity) by Mirkhwand (d. 1498); recto: colophon; verso: illuminated titlepiece, border and text

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Inayatullah al-katib al-Shirazi

• Author

  Khwandshah (Mirkhwand)

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of a Rawzat al-safa fi sirat al-anbiya' wa'l-muluk wa'l-khulafa (Garden of purity on the lives of the prophets, kings, and caliphs) by Muhammad b. Khwandshah (known as Mirkhwand); text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: colophon; verso: right-hand half of a double page composition detached from the facing folio (S1986.89.2); heading in white: third volume (al-jild al-thalath), text: fifteen lines; one of a group of twenty-one folios.

• Inscriptions

  This discourse is completed with the aid of God, king of the rulers, the powerful, and the munificent. By the goodness and properness and kindness of his divine grace, the least of God's creatures finished writing it, Ibn Mahmud Inayatullah the scribe of Shiraz. May God forgive his sins and disregard his faults in the year [A.H.] 979 [A.D. 1571-72].

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Origin

  Shiraz, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Name

  Inayatullah al-katib al-Shirazi, Khwandshah (Mirkhwand)

• Place

  Shiraz

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Henri Vever collection, Rawzat al-safa, Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination, History

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts