Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS 262-1949 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Contents

Summary of Contents: A selection from the Būstān of Saʻdī

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 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)

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.

Seal(s):

There is a smudged sealmark on folio 1r.

History

Origin: mid. 16th century CE

Provenance 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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