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Illuminated Folio from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)

c. 1475–1500; border: c. 1550

style of Sultan Muhammad

(Iranian)
calligrapher

style of Sultan 'Ali al-Mashadi

(Iranian, 1430–1520)
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Culture
Iran, Tabriz, Safavid period (1501-1722)
Medium
Gum tempera, ink, gold, and silver on paper
Credit Line
Gift of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. 2006.148
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Written in both prose and verse, the Gulistan was used for centuries as a primer for schoolchildren in greater Iran, India, and Turkey.

Description

In the border surrounding the Persian poetical text, deer and a lion coexist peacefully in a forest. This imagery may reference the rule of a righteous king.

The text is from the Gulistan, one of the most celebrated works of Persian literature, completed around 1258. Gulistan means “Rose Garden” in Persian; just as a rose garden is a collection of flowers, the contents are a collection of anecdotes. This page is from the section “On the Conduct of Kings.”
Vertically oriented book page with black Persian text in a light yellow brown rectangle on the center right surrounded by a border of gold flowering trees, foliage, birds, and lions on dark blue. In the lower right, two lions prance to our right. On the upper left, a peacock spreads its wings and opens its beak. A tree curving in from the right has dark-petaled flowers with a foxlike creature seated among them.

Illuminated Folio from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)

c. 1475–1500; border: c. 1550

Sultan Muhammad, Sultan 'Ali al-Mashadi

(Iranian), (Iranian, 1430–1520)
Iran, Tabriz, Safavid period (1501-1722)

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