For example, Sultan Hussein Boykara's palace library was organized in the same way.In the workshop of the Sultan's palace, secular literature was richly decorated with miniatures that served as illustrations for the works of popular poets of Persian or Turkic literature - Firdausi, Nizami, Dehlavi, Saadi, Jami, Navoi and others, or historians - Rashid al-Din, Sharaf al-din Ali Yazdi, Hafiz Abru.
The activity of the workshop was not limited only to the correspondence of manuscripts, it also included the creation of sketches for the decoration of various household items, architectural planes, costume.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The legacy of Kamal al-din Behzad in the collections of the world" (L volume) in the series "The cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
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What were the palace libraries used for?
The palace library, like other medieval libraries of the Muslim East, was a book depository (hazinat al-qutub), in which works of various profiles were stored, and a workshop (kitabkhana) for correspondence and artistic design of handwritten works on various branches of knowledge - secular (natural science, mathematics, history, philosophy, astronomy and literature - prose and poetry) and religious (theological literature, the Koran, Muslim law).