Page from the Diwan (Collected Works) of Sultan Husayn Mirza

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Page from the Diwan (Collected Works) of Sultan Husayn Mirza

Afghanistan, Herat, circa 1490
Manuscripts; folios
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, with découpage and gold-flecked border
9 × 5 3/4 in. (22.86 × 14.61 cm)
The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky (M.73.5.599a-b)
Art of the Middle East: Islamic and Contemporary
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

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See also: M.73.5.599c-d, M.73.5.599e-f, and M.73.56

The last great Timurid ruler, Sultan Husayn Bayqara, whose court at Herat in the late fifteenth century was the preeminent Persian cultural center of its day, also wrote poetry in his Turkic mother tongue; these poems were collected and copied in a now-dispersed manuscript, several pages of which are in LACMA’s collection. The exquisite nasta‘liq calligraphy was not written with a pen but was cut from sheets of colored paper and meticulously pasted onto the page, which has gold-flecked borders. This remarkable type of calligraphic paper cutout, or découpage, is known as qit‘a.
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