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 a fragment of one of the most important illustrated manuscripts produced for the Mughal emperor Akbar: a copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) copied by the royal scribe ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ʿAmbarīn Qalam in the fortieth year of Akbar's reign (1004 AH / 1595 CE). It was most likely executed in Lahore. The larger portion of the manuscript, preserved with the colophon, date, and scribe’s name, is housed in the British Library (Or. MS 12208). The Walters fragment contains parts of Khusraw va Shīrīn and Iskandarnāmah, with five illustrations. The illustrations bear ascriptions to court artists as well as running numbers from 1 to 44. The Walters folios are inscribed with the following names: Sānvlah, Nānhā, Shīvdās, Dharm Dās, and Bīm Gujarātī.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter headings in red
artist: Sānvlah
artist: Nānhā
artist: Shīvdās
artist: Dharm Dās
artist: Bīm Gujarātī
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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
Original description: Welch, S.C. “The Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Niẓāmī.” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 23 (1960): 87-96.
See also, Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 1/2. (London: Luzac; Leiden: E.J. Brill; London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1994), 438-495.
For the description of British Library Or. MS 12208, see Brend, Barbara. The Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami. London: British Library, 1995.
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.
Probably Lahore (present-day Pakistan)
[24 Aẕar 40th year of Akbar’s reign / 1595 CE] as given in BL Or. MS 12208
book
Non-original Binding
Lacquer boards with floral motifs in the main panel
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest"
Probably Lahore (present-day Pakistan)
[24 Aẕar 40th year of Akbar’s reign / 1595 CE] as given in BL Or. MS 12208
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest"
This is a fragment of one of the most important illustrated manuscripts produced for the Mughal emperor Akbar: a copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) copied by the royal scribe ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ʿAmbarīn Qalam in the fortieth year of Akbar's reign (1004 AH / 1595 CE). It was most likely executed in Lahore. The larger portion of the manuscript, preserved with the colophon, date, and scribe’s name, is housed in the British Library (Or. MS 12208). The Walters fragment contains parts of Khusraw va Shīrīn and Iskandarnāmah, with five illustrations. The illustrations bear ascriptions to court artists as well as running numbers from 1 to 44. The Walters folios are inscribed with the following names: Sānvlah, Nānhā, Shīvdās, Dharm Dās, and Bīm Gujarātī.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter headings in red
artist: Sānvlah
artist: Nānhā
artist: Shīvdās
artist: Dharm Dās
artist: Bīm Gujarātī
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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
Original description: Welch, S.C. “The Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Niẓāmī.” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 23 (1960): 87-96.
See also, Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 1/2. (London: Luzac; Leiden: E.J. Brill; London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1994), 438-495.
For the description of British Library Or. MS 12208, see Brend, Barbara. The Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami. London: British Library, 1995.
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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