"Five youths in the garden. Divan. Tabriz. 1515-20s."
Picture from the Dīvān of Khatā'ī.

"Manuscript; Divan-i Khata'i (Collected poems) by Shah Isma'il I (r. 1501-1524); Turkish in black nasta'liq script; illuminated headings in white; 50 folios with 3 paintings (2recto, 23verso, 24recto); standard page: 2 columns, 12 lines of text."National Museum of Asian Art

"Folio 23 verso: Inscribed on castle walls: "Founder of the Sultanate, the greatest sultan and most just, most noble emperor, liege lord of the kings of the Arabs and Persians, layer of the foundations of justice and munificence, spreader of the carpet of safety and security, Abu'l-Muzaffar Shah Isma'il Bahadur Khan."" National Museum of Asian Art

"This early sixteenth-century painting illustrates a verse by Shah Isma'il, the founder of the Safavid dynasty in Iran (reigned 1501-24). Like many Persian poets, Shah Isma'il, who used the pen name Khata'i, relies on garden imagery to describe the physical and spiritual attributes of a beloved, who is never mentioned. The verse reads as follows:

I have never seen anyone so beautiful as you on the earth, never in this world anyone as gorgeous as you.

Truly within the garden of the soul there can be no gesture so elegant as your tall erect cypress. Although there are many beauties among humanity,