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 illustrated and illuminated Safavid copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d. 725 AH / 1325 CE), written by Pīr Ḥusayn al-Kātib al-Shīrāzī in 935 AH / 1529 CE. The codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of the poet Mir (Amir) Khusraw (fols. 1b-2a). There are four illuminated incipit pages introducing the individual poems, and thirteen paintings illustrate the text. The lacquer binding, which is not original to the manuscript, has a hunting scene on the upper and lower boards. The lower board is inscribed yā Shāh Najaf (oh, King of Najaf, i.e. ʿAlī) and is dated 1271 AH / 1854 CE.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with sections/headings in gold and blue
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
Seyller, John. Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Walters Art Museum Khamsa of Amīr Khusraw of Delhi. (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2001), 151.
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
23 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 935 AH / 1529 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Lacquer boards (without flap) depicting hunting scenes with a gazelle and a bear; inscription on the lower board, dated 1271 AH / 1854 CE, reads: yā Shāh Najaf (oh, King of Najaf, i.e. ʿAlī)
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Former owner: Muḥammad ʿAlī Shīrāzī ibn […] Muḥammad Qāsim Shīrāzī, 1250[?]
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
23 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 935 AH / 1529 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Former owner: Muḥammad ʿAlī Shīrāzī ibn […] Muḥammad Qāsim Shīrāzī, 1250[?]
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illustrated and illuminated Safavid copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d. 725 AH / 1325 CE), written by Pīr Ḥusayn al-Kātib al-Shīrāzī in 935 AH / 1529 CE. The codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of the poet Mir (Amir) Khusraw (fols. 1b-2a). There are four illuminated incipit pages introducing the individual poems, and thirteen paintings illustrate the text. The lacquer binding, which is not original to the manuscript, has a hunting scene on the upper and lower boards. The lower board is inscribed yā Shāh Najaf (oh, King of Najaf, i.e. ʿAlī) and is dated 1271 AH / 1854 CE.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with sections/headings in gold and blue
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
Seyller, John. Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Walters Art Museum Khamsa of Amīr Khusraw of Delhi. (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2001), 151.
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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