Illuminated Manuscript Poem Suz va gudaz, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.649, fol. 17b

Illuminated Manuscript Poem Suz va gudaz, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.649, fol. 17b, originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts.

An elegantly calligraphed, illuminated and illustrated copy of the poem Sūz va gudāz ('Burning and melting') by Nawʿī Khabūshānī (d.1019 AH /1610 CE) which recounts the love story of a Hindu girl who decides to burn herself on the pyre of her betrothed killed accidentally just before their marriage. The present codex was penned by Ibn Sayyid Murād al-Ḥusaynī and illustrated by Muḥammad ʿAlī Mashhadī in 1068 AH / 1657 CE. Here Prince Dāniyāl accompanies the girl to the funeral pyre.

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