Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 71 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 71: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a running prose page (page 45) from a biographical narrative titled "Notice of Jámi's Life." The text describes the Persian poet Jámi's travels and homecoming: after encountering war in Mesopotamia, he returns to Herat in 1473 at age sixty to see his aged mother. The passage identifies Hasan Beg (described as "Handsome" by Venetian ambassadors) as the father of Jámi's patron, and recounts how Jámi was received at home by Husein Mirza Baikara, where the vizier Nizamuddin Ali Shir had welcomed him in verse. The ornamental border and page number indicate this is from a formally printed Victorian edition.
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NOTICE OF JAmi’sS LIFE. 45 _ ——_ —--_ —— arriving at Amida, the Capital of Mesopotamia, he found War broken out and in full Flame between that Sultan and Hasan Beg, King of the- Country, who caused Jami to be honourably escorted through the dangerous Roads to Tabriz; there received him in full Divan, and would fain have him abide at his Court awhile. Jdmi, however, was intent on Home, and once more seeing his aged Mother—for he was turned of Sixty—and at last reached Herat in the Month of Shaaban, 1473, after the Average Year’s absence. This is the Hasan, “in Name and Nature Handsome” (and so described by some Venetian Ambassadors of the Time), who was Father of Yacts Bea, to whom Jami dedicated the following Poem; and who, after the due murder of an Elder | Brother, succeeded to the Throne; till all the | Dynasties of ‘ Black and White Sheep” together were swept away a few years after by Ismail, Founder of the Sofi Dynasty in Persia. Arrived at home, Jdmi found Husein Mirza Baikara, last of the Timuride, seated on the Throne there, and ready to receive him with open Arms. Nizamuddin Ali Shir, Husein’s Vizir, a |. Poet too, had hailed in Verse the Poet’s Advent from | Damascus as “ The Moon rising in the West ;” and 279% COMmICcooOokS.€®