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English: Double page illustration in late Timurid manuscript of Sa'di's story of "Sa'di and the Youth of Kashgar" in his Gulistan ch 5, story 17:
In the year when Muhammad Khovarezm Shah concluded peace with the king of Khata to suit his own purpose, I entered the cathedral mosque of Kashgar and saw an extremely handsome, graceful boy as described in the simile:
He was holding in his hand the introduction to Zamaksharni's Arabic syntax and reciting: Zaid struck Amru and was the injurer of Amru. I said: 'Boy! Khovarezm and Khata have concluded peace, and the quarrel between Zaid and Amru still persists!' He smiled and asked for my birthplace. I replied: 'The soil of Shiraz.' He continued: 'What rememberest thou of the compositions of Sa'di?' I recited:
He considered awhile and then said: 'Most of his poetry current in this country is in the Persian language. If thou wilt recite some, it will be more easily understood.' Then I said:
The next morning, when I was about to depart, some people told him that I was Sa'di, whereon he came running to me and politely expressed his regret that I had not revealed my identity before so that he might have girded his loins to serve me in token of the gratitude due to the presence of a great man.
He also said: 'What would it be if thou wert to spend in this country some days in repose that we might derive advantage by serving thee?' I replied: 'I cannot on account of the following adventure which occurred to me:
This I said. Then we kissed each other's heads and faces and took leave of each other.
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Date | illustration 1547 Bukhara, for a text written by Sa'di in 1259, copied for this book in Herat in July 1500 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | Peerless Images: Persian Figural Painting and Its Sources, Eleanor Sims, from the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Geneva | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q170302 |
each half 21.6 cm high, 13.3 cm wide
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