Sugar from the reed pen: Selected treasures of Uzbek book arts at Oxford's Bodleian Libraries

The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford are home to one of the Western world's largest collection of manuscripts produced in what is now Uzbekistan and in the territories of the great empires once centred there. In this manuscript session, we will explore Uzbek artistic, calligraphic, and literary traditions through unique and exemplary poetry and prose works produced in Heart, Bukhara and Yazd in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Manuscripts will include Sultan Ḥusayn Bayqara's Dīwān, 'Aburraḥmān Jāmī's Yūsuf wa Zulayḫā, Mīr 'Alīšēr Nawā'ī's Sab'a Sayyāra, Aḥmad Ḫudaydād Ṭarāzī's Funūnu l-balāġa, and a majmū'a by a scribe named Manṣūr.