Divan of the Sultan Husayn Baiqara

Item

Title

Divan of the Sultan Husayn Baiqara

Description

This is another manuscript that was calligraphed by Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi.

Temporal Coverage

Approximately 1500 CE

Spatial Coverage

Herat, present-day Afghanistan

Type

Folios from a manuscript

Date Created

Approximately 1500 CE

Contributor

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rights

Purchase, Richard S. Perkins and Margaret Mushekian Gifts, 1982

Site pages

Catalogue Entry: “Funeral Procession” from Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Folios from the divan of Sultan Husayn Baiqara