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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an illuminated and illustrated Timurid copy of the Khamsah of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE), completed in 886 AH / 1481 CE. The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter/section headings in red. Illuminated headings written in a foliated New Abbasid (broken cursive) style in white ink on a blue background with polychrome decoration introduce the poems of the Khamsah (fols. 26b, 97a, 146b, and 202b). (The beginning of Makhzan al-asrār is now missing). There are sixty illustrations. The reddish brown leather binding dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter/section headings in red; illuminated headings written in a foliated New Abbasid (broken cursive) style in white ink
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: a Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 2. (London: Luzac, 1927- ), 438-495.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Iran
Ramaḍān 885-Rabīʿ I 886 / 1481
book
Non-original Binding
Dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE; blind-tooled reddish brown leather (no flap)
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
Ramaḍān 885-Rabīʿ I 886 / 1481
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illuminated and illustrated Timurid copy of the Khamsah of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE), completed in 886 AH / 1481 CE. The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter/section headings in red. Illuminated headings written in a foliated New Abbasid (broken cursive) style in white ink on a blue background with polychrome decoration introduce the poems of the Khamsah (fols. 26b, 97a, 146b, and 202b). (The beginning of Makhzan al-asrār is now missing). There are sixty illustrations. The reddish brown leather binding dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter/section headings in red; illuminated headings written in a foliated New Abbasid (broken cursive) style in white ink
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: a Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 2. (London: Luzac, 1927- ), 438-495.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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