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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This illuminated and illustrated copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) was written by Yār Muḥammad al-Haravī in 922 AH / 1516 CE. Written in four columns in black nastaʿlīq script, this manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece signed by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn ʿAlī. It contains thirty-five illustrations that were repainted in India during the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. The seal of Muḥammad Asharf ibn Muḥammad Khātam al-Ḥusaynī, dated 1173 AH / 1759-60 CE appears on fols. 1a and 401a. It is possible that the brown leather binding with center and side panels brushed with gold is original to the manuscript but was repaired at a later stage in the codex's history.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with section headings/captions in blue
artist: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn ʿAlī
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
Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 111.
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.
Present-day Afghanistan (?)
922 AH / 1516 CE; date given in chronosticon (fol. 401a, above colophon): rāvī khamsah
book
Original Binding
Brown leather with stamped center and side panels brushed with gold (no flap); inscription in upper and lower rectangles; doublures with blue dentelle-style filigree work
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Seal impression: Muḥammad Asharf ibn Muḥammad Khātam al-Ḥusaynī, 1173 AH / 1759-60 CE
Ownership statement: Ḥusayn […?], 1308 AH / 1890-1 CE
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Present-day Afghanistan (?)
922 AH / 1516 CE; date given in chronosticon (fol. 401a, above colophon): rāvī khamsah
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Seal impression: Muḥammad Asharf ibn Muḥammad Khātam al-Ḥusaynī, 1173 AH / 1759-60 CE
Ownership statement: Ḥusayn […?], 1308 AH / 1890-1 CE
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This illuminated and illustrated copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) was written by Yār Muḥammad al-Haravī in 922 AH / 1516 CE. Written in four columns in black nastaʿlīq script, this manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece signed by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn ʿAlī. It contains thirty-five illustrations that were repainted in India during the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. The seal of Muḥammad Asharf ibn Muḥammad Khātam al-Ḥusaynī, dated 1173 AH / 1759-60 CE appears on fols. 1a and 401a. It is possible that the brown leather binding with center and side panels brushed with gold is original to the manuscript but was repaired at a later stage in the codex's history.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with section headings/captions in blue
artist: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn ʿAlī
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
Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 111.
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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