Anonymous / Unknown

Satī

Year: 17th

From: Manuscript, Iran

Location: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art



Edited by: Chiara Petrolini


Related Documents:

Qasim, Muhammad

Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The pyre; the bride preparing to sacrifice herself (1650)

from: Nawʻi Khabushani, Muhammad Riz̤a, Sūz u Gudāz, fol. 31v

Chester Betty Library, Dublin, Ireland MS Pers 268, fol. 31b

Anonymous / Unknown

Scene of a sati. In the foreground, a widowed woman (encountered by Della Valle on November 12, 1623) on horseback holds a mirror and a lemon amidst a crowd. In the background, a woman throws herself into the flames of a funeral pyre (1665)

from: Della Valle, Pietro, De volkome beschryving der voortreffelijke reizen van de deurluchtige reisiger Pietro della Valle, edelman van Romen, in veel voorname gewesten des werrelts, sedert het jaer 1615, tot in 't jaar 1626 gedaan. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1666, vol. 5, pag. 163