MS 262-1949 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)
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Summary of Contents: A selection from the Būstān of SaʻdīPhysical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: 126 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 165 mm.Layout
Written dimension variable, approx. 150 x 70 mm. The text is inlaid throughout with tinted paper margins and is written in two columns, 15 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Seal(s):Decoration
A decorated medallion in blue and gold act as frontispiece, followed by a fully illuminated double-folio title page in blue, gold and polychrome decoration. The poetic text is inlaid in broader paper margings tinted throughout in shades of yello, blue, red and cream, and neraly every page has decorated margins in gold flower scrolls or is flecked in gold and silver.
Two paintings have been removed form the manuscript and are now PD 158-1984 and PD 202-1948.
There is a smudged sealmark on folio 1r.
History
Origin: mid. 16th century CEProvenance and Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum by P.C. Manuk and Miss G.M. Coles, through the National Art Collections Fund,1948.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Francis Wormald and Phyllis M. Giles "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum acquired between 1895 and 1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)", Cambridge University Press, 1982; with corrections and additions supplied by Marcus Fraser and Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti.Availability
The manuscript can be consulted in the Graham Robertson Study room at The Fitzwilliam Museum, on an appointment only basis. To request an appointment, please email collections@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk citing the manuscript number.
Funding of Cataloguing
The Fitzwilliam Museum
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