Portrait of Muhammad Khan Shaibani, the Uzbek (d.1510)

Inscription: In upper panel corners in Persian:
Upper right panel: Portrait of Shaybeg Khan; Upper left panel: The slave Bihzad.

In Arabic language and in Nastaʻliq script
صورت شایبگ خان
العبد بهزاد
The portrait of Shaybag,
[Drawn by] the slave Bihzad .
On the left border Persian poem from Jami in Nastaʻliq script as follows:
... نور الدین عبدالرحمن جامی علیه الرحمة
گر از پیراهنت بویی به طرف گلستان آید زند گل جامه بر خود چاک و بلبل در فغان آید
بر اندام نازک چون پسندم بار پیراهن که بر روی سایۀ گلبرگ هم دانم گران آید
به حلق تشنه آب زتدگاني داني چه خوش باشد مرا تیغ جفایت بر گلو خوشتر از آن آید
…. Nur al-Din Abdul-Rahman Jami may mercy be upon him:
If a smell from your shirt comes to the rosary, the flower will slit the cloth on and the nightingale will begin to cry.
The weight of shirt on the fragile body is like a shadow on a flower's petal????, I know that it is heavy also on the shadow of the flower's petal.
Do you know that the water of life is so sweet to the thirsty [throat ], for me your persecutor’s knife on your neck is sweeter than that.

(Diwan Kamil Jami, ed. Hashim Razi, Piruz publication, Tehran, 1341/ 1363, p. 329–30)
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A.Ghouchani, 2010

Marking: - Sticker: PERSIAN / EXHIBITION / NEW YORK / 1940 / BCT 12

[ Armenag Bey Sakisian, Paris, by 1929–at least 1931]; Cora Timken Burnett, Alpine, NJ (by 1932–d. 1956; bequeathed to MMA)

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