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Book/Printed Material Burning and Melting.

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Title

  • Burning and Melting.

Summary

  • This manuscript is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the poem Sūz va gudāz (Burning and melting) by Naw'ī Khabūshānī, who died in 1019 AH (1610 AD). It recounts the love story of a Hindu girl who burns herself on the funeral pyre of her betrothed. The codex was written in Nasta'līq script in black ink by Ibn Sayyid Murād al-Ḥusaynī and illustrated by Muḥammad 'Alī Mashhadī in 1068 AH (1657 AD). According to the colophon, Ibn Sayyid Murād al-Ḥusaynī copied the manuscript for the painter Muḥammad 'Alī, the "Mani of the time," as a souvenir. The fact that the manuscript was produced for one of the most prolific artists of 17th-century Iran makes it a highly significant document. It opens with an illuminated incipit with headpiece (folio 1b) and closes with an illuminated tailpiece with colophon (folio 21b). Text pages have interlinear illumination and small rectangular and triangular pieces with polychrome floral and scrolling vine motifs. There are eight miniatures in a style associated with the Safavid centers of artistic production of Mashhad and Isfahan (folios 5a, 9a, 10b, 13a, 14a, 16a, 17b, and 19b). The manuscript is from the Walters Art Museum and is designated Walters W. 649.

Names

  • Ibn Sayyid Murād al-Ḥusaynī Transcriber.
  • Mashhadī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, died 1164 or 5 Illustrator.
  • Nawʻī Khabūshānī, Muḥammad Riz̤ā, died 1609 or 10 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1657.

Headings

  • -  Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • -  1550 to 1657
  • -  Calligraphy, Persian
  • -  Codex
  • -  Illuminations
  • -  Love stories
  • -  Nasta'liq script
  • -  Persian poetry
  • -  Poetry
  • -  Sati
  • -  Widow suicide

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: Foliation: ii + 22 + i. Dimensions: 14.5 centimeters wide by 23.5 centimeters high. Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos.
  • -  Original resource at: Walters Art Museum.
  • -  Content in Persian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667201

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Ibn Sayyid Murād Al-Ḥusaynī Transcriber, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAlī Mashhadī, and Muḥammad Riz̤Ā NawʻĪ Khabūshānī. Burning and Melting. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1657] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667201/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Sayyid Murād Al-Ḥusaynī Transcriber, Mashhadī, M. I. ʻ. & NawʻĪ Khabūshānī, M. R. (1657) Burning and Melting. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667201/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Sayyid Murād Al-Ḥusaynī Transcriber, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAlī Mashhadī, and Muḥammad Riz̤Ā NawʻĪ Khabūshānī. Burning and Melting. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1657] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667201/>.