This article will focus on a Persian manuscript of Central Asian origin of exceptional literary, historical, and artistic importance. It is a selection of poetry, which was composed in Herat and written in 1531–32 in Bukhara and now belongs to King's College, Cambridge (King's Pote 186). It is the second part of my research on this manuscript, and I shall concentrate mainly on its textual and artistic peculiarities. The first part, which was published recently, was dedicated to its provenance as well as its historical and religious setting.1 The studies also reflect the political, social, and cultural processes in a contemporary turbulent world. Among these are the Shaybanid and Safavid conquests of sixteenth-century Central Asia, Shah Jahan's literary preferences, the colonial ambitions of the former Cambridge graduate Ephraim Pote, East India Company agent-turned-scholar Antoine Polier, and expertise of the crème de la crème of Victorian Cambridge academia.

本文将重点介绍一份具有非凡文学、历史和艺术重要性的中亚波斯手稿。这是一部诗歌选集，创作于赫拉特，1531–32 年写于布哈拉，现在属于剑桥大学国王学院（King's Pote 186）。这是我研究这份手稿的第二部分，我将主要关注它的文本和艺术特点。第一部分最近出版，致力于介绍它的出处以及它的历史和宗教背景。1这些研究还反映了当代动荡世界中的政治、社会和文化进程。其中包括 Shaybanid 和 Safavid 对 16 世纪中亚的征服、Shah Jahan 的文学偏好、前剑桥大学毕业生 Ephraim Pote 的殖民野心、东印度公司代理人转为学者的 Antoine Polier，以及顶级精英的专业知识维多利亚时代的剑桥学术界。