The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the Khamsah (quintet) by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE), completed by Ḥabīb Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusām in Safavid Iran in Rabīʿ II 971 AH / 1563 CE. Illuminated titlepieces introduce the five poems, and there are thirty illustrations, the majority of which are attributable to thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE Qajar Iran. Ownership notes and seals indicating the provenance of this manuscript are found throughout the codex (fols. 1a, 2a, 153a, 177a, 233a, 349a, and 351a). The binding is not original to the manuscript.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script; chapter/section headings in red 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
Mid Rabīʿ II 971 AH / 1563 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Brown leather with blind-stamped oval central medallion and pendants (no flap)
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Ownership note: Bāqī Pāshā
Ownership note with seal: ʿAlī Rizā ibn Muṣṭafá, 1180 AH / 1766-7 CE
Seal impression: ʿAlī Mawlā ʿAlī
Ownership note: Ṣāḥibī umm [the mother of] Mīrzā Ibrāhīm
Seal impression: Shāh Vardī Ghulām Shāh Mardān
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
Mid Rabīʿ II 971 AH / 1563 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Ownership note: Bāqī Pāshā
Ownership note with seal: ʿAlī Rizā ibn Muṣṭafá, 1180 AH / 1766-7 CE
Seal impression: ʿAlī Mawlā ʿAlī
Ownership note: Ṣāḥibī umm [the mother of] Mīrzā Ibrāhīm
Seal impression: Shāh Vardī Ghulām Shāh Mardān
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the Khamsah (quintet) by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE), completed by Ḥabīb Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusām in Safavid Iran in Rabīʿ II 971 AH / 1563 CE. Illuminated titlepieces introduce the five poems, and there are thirty illustrations, the majority of which are attributable to thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE Qajar Iran. Ownership notes and seals indicating the provenance of this manuscript are found throughout the codex (fols. 1a, 2a, 153a, 177a, 233a, 349a, and 351a). The binding is not original to the manuscript.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script; chapter/section headings in red 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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