Bāisonqur

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Calligraphy of the Baisongor

Gīāṭ al-dīn Bāysonḡor, commonly known as Baisonqur or Baysonqor , also Sultan Bāysonḡor Bahādor Khan (born September 16, 1397 , Herat ; † December 20, 1433 , Bāḡ-e Safīd Palace near Herat) was a Timurid prince. Known above all as a patron of the arts and architecture, he was a leading patron of miniature painting, commissioner of the Bāisonqur- Shāhnāme named after him and himself a calligrapher .

Bāisonqur was a son of Shāh Ruch and Gauhar-Schad .

From the point of view of modern historians, Bāisonqur was a better statesman than his famous older brother Ulugh Beg , who succeeded Shah Ruch on the throne.

The Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin houses an anthology of Persian poetry, completed in 1420 in Shiraz , with 950 pages and 29 miniatures from the possession of Bāisonqur, which was acquired in 1925.

literature

  • Volkmar Enderlein : The miniatures of the Berlin Bāisonqur manuscript . Berlin, 1991. (Picture books of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; 1)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c BĀYSONḠOR, ḠĪĀT-AL-DĪN B. ŠĀHROḴ B. TĪMŪR in Encyclopedia Iranica
  2. ↑ Volkmar Enderlein: The miniatures of the Berlin Bāisonqur manuscript . Berlin 1991, pp. 9-13
  3. ^ List of acquisitions from July to October 1925 . In: Berliner Museen, 47th year, no. 1 (1926), p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Bāisonqur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gīāṭ al-dīn Bāysonḡor; Sultan Bāysonḡor Bahādor Khan; Baisonqur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Timurid Prince
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1397
PLACE OF BIRTH Herat
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1433
Place of death Bāḡ-e Safīd Palace near Herat