Manuscript of "Bustan" by Sa'di with a miniature from the collection of St. Petersburg State University: dating and attribution /«Бустан» Са‘ди с миниатюрой из собрания СПбГУ: датировка и атрибуция / (original) (raw)

Manuscript of "Bustan" by Sa'di with a miniature from the collection of St. Petersburg State University: dating and attribution /«Бустан» Са‘ди с миниатюрой из собрания СПбГУ: датировка и атрибуция /

2023, The Middle East and Its Approaches: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Nikolay Dyakov

The article is devoted to the manuscript of "Bustan" by Sa'adi in the collection of manuscripts of the Eastern Department of the M. Gorky Scientific Library of St. Petersburg State University, which does not have an exact date of copying and is decorated with one badly damaged miniature. Comparison with the miniatures of Nizami's "Khamsa" manuscript (1058/1648), kept in the National Library of Russia, makes it possible to attribute this copy of "Bustan" to the circle of books created in Bukhara during the reign of Khan 'Abd al-'Aziz (1645–1680) by calligraphers and artists who worked at his court kitabkhana.