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The Heart Book is regarded as the oldest Danish ballad manuscript. It is a collection of 83 love ballads compiled in the beginning of the 1550’s in the circle of the Court of King Christian III.

Shown above is the beginning of ballad no. 43.

Store længsel, du går mig nær (Great Yearning, thou touches me).

A later reader – the otherwise unknown Christen Masse – has added some notes, i.a. this pious hope: “gvd ende oc vinde alle mit er lende til en god oc gledelig ende amen” (may god end and turn my misery into a good and happy ending amen).

We do not know who compiled the ballads and instigated the writing of the Heart Book. All ballads except one – no. 66 – have probably been written by the same hand.

19.5 x 15 cm.

Pierced jug with harpies, sphynxes, and animals against a vegetal background

Made in Kashan, Iran, dated A.H. 612/ A.D. 1215–16 (Seljuq period).

There is a ruba’i by an unknown poet inscribed around the base of the jug:

گفتم چو رسد بزلف دانی دستم دل باز ستانم وز محنت رستم یک لحظه چو در پیش رخش بنشتم جان نیز چو دل در سر زلفش بستم

I said, “[Do] you know, if my hand reaches her tresses, I [could] reclaim my heart and be free from suffering.” One moment, while sitting face-to-face with her, I tied my soul, like my heart, to the end of her curls.

(In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There’s a bit more on this jug in The Flowering of Seljuq Art, pg 119-120 and Islamic Pottery: A Brief History, pg. 22-3)

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