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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the first collection of poetry (Dīvān-i avval or Fātiḥat al-shabāb) by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). According to the colophon, is was copied by the illustrious Safavid calligrapher Shāh Maḥmūd Nīshāpūrī (d. 972 AH / 1564-5 CE) (fol. 306a). The codex opens with a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a), which is followed by a double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a). There are ten additional paintings that appear to date later than the text itself. These paintings are in the style of Isfahan in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The textblock, which has been trimmed, is bound in lacquer boards decorated with hunting scenes and landscape motifs. The binding was also executed in Iran and is attributable to the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE or eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. There are several erased seals and one ownership statement on fol. 1a, and a seal impression naming Muḥammad Amīn is found on fol. 3a.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black, red, 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
Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 2. (London: British Museum, 1879-83), 643.
Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), no. 225.
Simpson, Marianna Shreve, and Massumeh Farhad. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran. (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1997), 254-269.
Ibrāhīmī Ḥusaynī, Aḥmad. Calligraphers and Painters: A Treatise by Qāḍī Aḥmad, Son of Mīr-Munshī, circa A.H. 1015 / A.D. 1606, Translated from the Persian by V. Minorsky, with an Introduction by B.N. Zakhoder; Translated from the Russian by T. Minorsky. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, 1959), 135-8.
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
10th century AH / 16th CE
book
Non-original Binding
Perhaps late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE or eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE; lacquer boards (with flap) decorated with hunting scenes and landscape motifs; doublures of multicolored filigree work and mirror work
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Several erased seals and one ownership statement
Seal impression with the name Muḥammad Amīn
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
10th century AH / 16th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Several erased seals and one ownership statement
Seal impression with the name Muḥammad Amīn
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the first collection of poetry (Dīvān-i avval or Fātiḥat al-shabāb) by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). According to the colophon, is was copied by the illustrious Safavid calligrapher Shāh Maḥmūd Nīshāpūrī (d. 972 AH / 1564-5 CE) (fol. 306a). The codex opens with a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a), which is followed by a double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a). There are ten additional paintings that appear to date later than the text itself. These paintings are in the style of Isfahan in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The textblock, which has been trimmed, is bound in lacquer boards decorated with hunting scenes and landscape motifs. The binding was also executed in Iran and is attributable to the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE or eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. There are several erased seals and one ownership statement on fol. 1a, and a seal impression naming Muḥammad Amīn is found on fol. 3a.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black, red, 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
Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 2. (London: British Museum, 1879-83), 643.
Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), no. 225.
Simpson, Marianna Shreve, and Massumeh Farhad. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran. (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1997), 254-269.
Ibrāhīmī Ḥusaynī, Aḥmad. Calligraphers and Painters: A Treatise by Qāḍī Aḥmad, Son of Mīr-Munshī, circa A.H. 1015 / A.D. 1606, Translated from the Persian by V. Minorsky, with an Introduction by B.N. Zakhoder; Translated from the Russian by T. Minorsky. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, 1959), 135-8.
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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