1142–1220), the author of the Mantiq al-Tayr, is one of the most celebrated poets of Sufi literature and inspired the work of many later mystical poets. Shah cAbbas then presented the manuscript to the Ardabil shrine in 1608/9.ĬAttar (ca. 1587–1629), whose artists remounted the folios and added a frontispiece and four contemporary illustrations in a new binding. More than a hundred years later, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, it came into the possession of Shah cAbbas (r. Although four illustrations can be dated to the late 1480s, for some reason the manuscript was not completed. 1470–1506) and a nobleman, cAlishir Nava'i (1440–1501), and is one of the few extant illustrated manuscripts of the Mantiq al-Tayr.Īs the colophon states, this manuscript was completed on the first day of the fifth month of the second year of the last ten years preceding 900, that is, AH 892 (April 25, 1487) and several illustrations were attached. It contains illustrations which are often attributed to the celebrated painter Bihzad, who served the Timurid monarch Husain Baiqara (r. It was initiated under the Timurid court atelier in Herat and completed in the Safavid court atelier in Isfahan. This manuscript has several distinctive features. This illustrated manuscript of Farid al-Din cAttar's mystical poem Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds) is one of the most important illustrated manuscripts from Timurid Persia (1370–1507) and a highlight of the Islamic collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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