Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts
Illuminated Manuscript, Three collections of poetry, Incipit with illuminated headpiece and titlepiece, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.657, fol. 280b
This is an illustrated and illuminated composite volume of three poetic texts: the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE), the Khamsah (quintet) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d. 725 AH / 1325 CE), and the Timūrnāmah (Epic of Timur) by ʿAbd Allāh Hātifī (d. 927 AH / 1520 CE), also known as the Ẓafarnāmah. The texts are written in black naskh script, with titles, section headings, and incidentals in white or red tawqīʿ/riqāʿ script. It was produced in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, in either India or Safavid Iran. The binding is not original to the manuscript. According to a note on front flyleaf iia, the codex was re-bound and restored by a bookbinder of Tabriz, Khwand Mullā Mahdī Ṣaḥḥāf-i Tabrīzī in 1295 AH /1878 CE.
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Illuminated Manuscript, Three collections of poetry, Incipit with illuminated headpiece and titlepiece, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.657, fol. 280b
This is an illustrated and illuminated composite volume of three poetic texts: the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE), the Khamsah (quintet) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d. 725 AH / 1325 CE), and the Timūrnāmah (Epic of Timur) by ʿAbd Allāh Hātifī (d. 927 AH / 1520 CE), also known as the Ẓafarnāmah. The texts are written in black naskh script, with titles, section headings, and incidentals in white or red tawqīʿ/riqāʿ script. It was produced in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, in either India or Safavid Iran. The binding is not original to the manuscript. According to a note on front flyleaf iia, the codex was re-bound and restored by a bookbinder of Tabriz, Khwand Mullā Mahdī Ṣaḥḥāf-i Tabrīzī in 1295 AH /1878 CE.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.