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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.64
People
Unknown Artist
Title
Selection (Sixteen Folios) from the Bustan (Orchard) by Sa`di
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript
Date
May 1502
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Khorasan province
Period
Safavid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215608

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
23.18 x 14.29 cm (9 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.64
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This is a selection of Bustan (Orchard) by Sa'di. It contains 16 folios, beginning with two illustrations in the frontispiece. The colophon states it was copied in Zhu'l-Qa'dah 907/ May 1502 in the hand of Muhammad b. 'Ala' al-Din Rizah'i in the city of Bakharz, village of Rizah.
The folios are remargined in gold-speckled paper of various colours, enclosed in a paper cover of gold-speckled on top and gold-speckled and marbled at the back.

Publication History

  • 40 Years On... Donations by John Goelet: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, Miniatures and Calligraphy, Tankas and Mandala, M. T. Train and Scala Books (New York, NY, 2000), page 166-167, 239

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/08/2020

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