Leaf from Burning and Melting: Hindu Couple United on the Funeral Pyre

1657 (Safavid; Mughal)

14.5 cm 23.5 cm

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This is an 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 burns herself on the funeral pyre of her betrothed. The codex was written in nastaʿlīq in bl...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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