Goobi - 7ebd8 - 2023-11-27T09:36:54Z Goobi The poet takes a cup of wine, from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, or Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī (d. 1318). The poet sits in a garden enclosure, beneath trees and beside a meandering stream in a golden landscape. A young cupbearer (sāqī) hands him a cup of wine. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, re-mounted in gold-painted blue borders, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on recto), from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, also called Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī Fakhr al-Sādāt (d. 1318, Herat), from a collection (majmū`a) of Persian poetry, dedicated to Timurid ruler Abū Sa`īd (r. 1451-69), decorated borders added later by order of Shaybanid ruler `Abd al-Aziz (r. 1540-1549), probably produced in Herat, Afghanistan, c. 1450, with replacement borders added Bukhara, Uzbekistan, c. 1540-1549 The poet takes a cup of wine, from Thirty Letters (Sī-nāma, or Love Letters, `Ishq-nāma) by Amīr Ḥusaynī (d. 1318) Per 149.24 Per_149_24 Persian collection Persian (language) Approved Category 2017/Manuscript/Codex/Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex) Approved Place 2018/Asia/Central Asia/Afghanistan/Herat Approved Place 2018/Asia/Central Asia/Afghanistan/Herat Approved Place 2018/Asia/Central Asia/Uzbekistan/Bukhara Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex) Nasta`liq script c. 1450, borders added c. 1540-1549 1451 1451 1540 1469 1469 1549 true Approved Material 2018/Materials/Fibre/Plant fibre/Paper (material) Approved Material 2018/Materials/Colourant (material)/Pigment (material) Approved Material 2018/Materials/Coating material/Ink (material) Approved Material 2018/Inorganic/Metal (material)/Non-ferrous metal/Gold Paper (material) Pigment (material) Ink (material) Gold GOOD 162 mm x 104 mm (height x width) art Unknown Unknown Herat art Unknown Unknown Bukhara cll Unknown Unknown Herat Chester Beatty Library https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/resources/themes/cbl/images/template/fullscreen_logo.png https://chesterbeatty.ie/ mailto:photographicservices@cbl.ie https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/ppnresolver?id=Per_149_24 https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/ppnresolver?id=Per_149_24