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Record Id:

032-002800048

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032-002800048

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Add Ms 27262

Title:

Saʻdī, Būstān

Scope & Content:

Saʻdī’s Būstān illustrated with ten miniatures, Mughal period. Bound in painted and glazed covers depicting flowers and birds (outside) and animals and mythical beasts (inside). Dated at Agra, 26 Rabīʻ I 1039 (13 November 1629). Copied in large elegant nastaʻliq by the well-known physician and poet Ḥakīm Rukn al-Dīn Masʻūd, known as Ḥakīm Ruknā, who went to India in the reign of Akbar and became one of Shah Jahan’s favourite poets. Margins decorated in gold with animals, plants, birds etc on different coloured backgrounds.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

175 folios

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Languages:

Persian

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1629

End Date:

1629

Date Range:

1629

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 381 x 260 mm leaf

Script: Nastaʻliq in two columns, 12 lines to a page; the scribe is Ḥakīm Rukn al-Dīn Masʻūd, known as Ḥakīm Ruknā (see colophon on f. 175r)

Decoration: Includes ten miniatures, Mughal period, which appear to be by four different artists: ff. 37r, 40r, 52r, 59v, 67v, 129r, 145r, 152r, 162v, 168v.

Binding: Painted and glazed covers depicting flowers and birds (outside) and animals and mythical beasts (inside)

Custodial History:

Purchased at Kermanshah in 1810 by Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) from a prince of the Zand dynasty “whose eyes had been put out & who wandered as a mendicant over the country his ancestors & relations had so long governed” (f.1r)

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased by the British Museum 9 December 1865 from General George A. Malcolm, Sir John's son

Finding Aids:

Ch. Rieu, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London, 1879-1883, p. 602

Norah M. Titley, Miniatures from Persian Manuscripts: a Catalogue and Subject Index of Paintings from Persia, India and Turkey in the British Library and the British Museum. London, 1977, no. 342, p. 146

Publications:

R. H. Pinder-Wilson, “Three Illustrated Manuscripts of the Mughal Period”, Ars Orientalis, 2 (1957), pp. 413-422

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)