Junayd
Junayd Baghdadi (circa 1396) was a 14th-century illustrator and a royal painter (naqqash-i sultani) at the time of the Jalayirid Sultanate in Baghdad. He was named a student of Shams al-Din by Dust Muhammad. He is known as the illustrator for the Divan of Khvaju Kirmani, published in 1396 in Baghdad.
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Junayd
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- Jalayirid Sultanate
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- illuminator · painter
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- Persian
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This manuscript is "the most firmly dated illustrated and high-quality Jalayirid manuscript". One of the paintings was signed by Junayd himself. He may also have been the illustrator of the paintings in Freer Divans paintings. • Illustration — Divan of Khvaju Kirmani, illustrations by Junaid (1396, detail) • Illustration — Folio 18. • Illustration — Folio 23.
The recorded working language is Persian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Baghdad. Work by Junayd is recorded in the collections of British Library.
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Junayd (1350 – 1450) is described as an illustrator in the authority records of the Getty Union List of Artist Names. Junayd was born in 1350 and died in 1450.
Khvaju Kirmani Visited by the Angel of Inspiration in a Dream. Detached folio from the Three Masnavis by Khvaju Kirmani, painted in Baghdad in 1396 probably by Junayd, and in 1543/44 removed from the original manuscript by Dust Muhammad and placed in the so-called Bahram Mirza Album. Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Hazine 2154 f. 20b "Fig. 10. Angel of inspiration visiting the sleeping poet Khvaju Kirmani;
Junayd · Sheila S. Blair, Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art, page 188, figure 5.11
Queen of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir, Baghdad, 1396. Khamsah by Khvaju Kirmani - BL Add MS 18113
1396 artist Ahmad Jalayir · This image has been extracted from another file
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- 1.ÇAĞMAN, FİLİZ. SELECTIONS FROM JALAYIRID BOOKS IN THE LIBRARIES OF ISTANBUL. Muqarnas. 28. 232. 2011. 0732-2992.
- 2.Sturkenboom, Ilse. The Paintings of the FreerDivanof Sultan Ahmad b. Shaykh Uvays and a New Taste for Decorative Design. Iran. 56. 2. 197, note 59. 2018. 0578-6967.
- 3.Viaf 305191221. viaf.org.
- 4.Digitised Manuscripts. www.bl.uk.
- 5.Sturkenboom, Ilse. The Paintings of the FreerDivanof Sultan Ahmad b. Shaykh Uvays and a New Taste for Decorative Design. Iran. 56. 2. 198. 2018. 0578-6967.
- 6.The British Library MS Viewer. www.bl.uk.
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