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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) was written by Abū Bakr Shāh ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Shahrastānī and illuminated by Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣiddīqī al-Iṣfahānī between 892 AH / 1486 CE and 900 AH / 1494-5 CE. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece with an inscription giving the title of the work and the name of the author (fols. 1b-2a). There are four illuminated titlepieces with the names of the individual poems and twenty-six repainted illustrations. According to evidence supplied by the colophons, the original binding was by the hand of Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣiddīqī al-Iṣfahānī, as well. Unfortunately, it has not survived. The binding presently attached to the manuscript dates to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with captions in blue and gold
artist: Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṣiddīqī al-Iṣfahānī
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.
Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 111.
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
892 AH / 1486 CE; another date of 900 AH / 1494-5 CE given on fol. 446a for the completion of the illuminations and binding
book
Non-original Binding
Probably dates to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE; brown leather (with flap); stamped, gold-brushed central ovals, pendants, and cornerpieces; marbled endpapers; first and last folios mounted
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
892 AH / 1486 CE; another date of 900 AH / 1494-5 CE given on fol. 446a for the completion of the illuminations and binding
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) was written by Abū Bakr Shāh ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Shahrastānī and illuminated by Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣiddīqī al-Iṣfahānī between 892 AH / 1486 CE and 900 AH / 1494-5 CE. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece with an inscription giving the title of the work and the name of the author (fols. 1b-2a). There are four illuminated titlepieces with the names of the individual poems and twenty-six repainted illustrations. According to evidence supplied by the colophons, the original binding was by the hand of Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣiddīqī al-Iṣfahānī, as well. Unfortunately, it has not survived. The binding presently attached to the manuscript dates to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with captions in blue and gold
artist: Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṣiddīqī al-Iṣfahānī
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.
Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 111.
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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