Junayd (illustrator)

Junayd Baghdadi
(جنيد)

Signature of Junayd (’amal-i Junayd-i Baghdādī)¹ in the Khamsah of Khvaju Kirmani (British Library, Add 18113), 1396, Baghdad.²

The signature of Junayd appears in the grisaille window over the throne of Humayun. Folio 45, Khamsah of Khvaju Kirmani (British Library, Add 18113), 1396.²

Junayd Baghdadi (Persian: جُنیدِ بَغدادی; circa 1396) was a 14th-century illustrator and a royal painter (naqqash-i sultani) at the time of the Jalayirid Sultanate in Baghdad.³⁴ He was named a student of Shams al-Din by Dust Muhammad.³

He is known as the illustrator for the Divan of Khvaju Kirmani, published in 1396 in Baghdad.⁵³ This manuscript is "the most firmly dated illustrated and high-quality Jalayirid manuscript".² One of the paintings was signed by Junayd himself.² He may also have been the illustrator of the paintings in Freer Divan's paintings.³

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  Divan of Khvaju Kirmani, illustrations by Junaid (1396, detail)
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  Folio 18.⁶
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  Folio 23.⁶