An illustrated divan of Baki at the Harvard Art Museums

Abstract

This paper introduces an unpublished, late-sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript of the Divan of Baki (Harvard Art Museums, 1985.273). The manuscript raises the issue of options and paradigms for illustration in the Divan. Taking the Harvard Art Museums manuscript as a point of focus in comparison with the other illustrated Divan of Baki of the late-sixteenth century, this paper focuses on the relationship between a non-narrative text and image.