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Summary
Mir Sayyid Ali: Divan of Nava'i, in Chaghatay Turkish [Painted covers over illuminated manuscript]
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Divan of Nava'i, in Chaghatay Turkish [Painted covers over illuminated manuscript] |
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Style: Presentation|Hunting scene; Caption: Lower cover; Colour: Unspecified; Edge: Unspecified |
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| Date | Binding: 16c | |||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Decorative Technique: Painted|Lacquered; Cover Material: Unspecified | |||||||||||||||||
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Shelfmark: Or1374 |
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| Place of creation | Binding: Persia | |||||||||||||||||
| Object history | Text: 16c; Unspecified; Unspecified | |||||||||||||||||
| Notes | This particular work was signed by Mir Sayyid 'Ali (c1540), an extremely influential artist who travelled to India and helped found the Mughal school of painting. Upper cover depicts a garden scene. Part of the British Library's Asian, Middle Eastern and African Studies Collections. | |||||||||||||||||
| References | See K B Gardner, ‘Oriental bookbindings at the British Museum’ in Oriental Art, new series vol. IX, Spring 1963 p.139. | |||||||||||||||||
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