An illustrated leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Şah u Geda of Yahya Beg Dukakin-zade (d. after AH 982/AD 1574-75), depicting the Shah with an elegant company picnicking in a garden Ottoman Turkey, 16th/17th Century


Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 17 lines to the page written in two columns of naskhi script in black ink, inner margins ruled in gold and black, marginal drawing and cornerpiece below main illustration leaf 256 x 165 mm.
|ProvenancePrivate UK collection.For the text, see note to the previous lot.In this scene the Shah is in a garden with his companions. In the left margin below the painting is a figure, perhaps the beggar Geda, gazing at flowers. In the story the beggar had beseeched the gardener not to pick the flowers in the garden, the flower being a metaphor for the beauty of the beloved.