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 manuscript comprised of three short works on Sufism by Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE), produced in Safavid Iran. The first work is called Lavāyiḥ and consists of a collection of apophthegms. The second work is a commentary on the famous Arabic "Wine poem" (Khamrīyah) by ʿUmar ibn Fāriḍ (d. 632 AH / 1235 CE). The third work is a commentary on the "Song of the flute" from the beginning of the Mas̱navī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672 AH / 1273 CE). The manuscript was written in nastaʿlīq script by the well-known Iranian calligrapher Bābā Shāh ibn Sulṭān ʿAlī Iṣfahānī in 999 AH / 1591 CE. There is a note dated to the year 1105 AH / 1694 CE on fol. 1a indicating that the manuscript is made up of two papers: Samarqandī (for the text) and Dawlatābādī (for the margins). There are also seals dating between the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE and the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with incidentals in gold 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
Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 127. (Lavāyiḥ)
Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 129. (Lavāmiʿ)
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
Rajab 999 AH / 1591 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Dark brown leather (with flap) attached backwards; gold-brushed panel-stamped design; doublures with filigree work on a multi-colored ground of blue, orange, pink, and green
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Round seal
Note dated 22 Jum. II 1105 AH / 1694 CE
Square seal with the name Maḥmūd
Octagonal seal of Ḥusayn Shāh Ghulāmī underneath an inscription giving the date Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1127 AH / 1715 CE
Ownership statement of Ḥusayn Qavam [?] Daftar, 1301 AH / 1883-4
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
Rajab 999 AH / 1591 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Round seal
Note dated 22 Jum. II 1105 AH / 1694 CE
Square seal with the name Maḥmūd
Octagonal seal of Ḥusayn Shāh Ghulāmī underneath an inscription giving the date Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1127 AH / 1715 CE
Ownership statement of Ḥusayn Qavam [?] Daftar, 1301 AH / 1883-4
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illuminated manuscript comprised of three short works on Sufism by Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE), produced in Safavid Iran. The first work is called Lavāyiḥ and consists of a collection of apophthegms. The second work is a commentary on the famous Arabic "Wine poem" (Khamrīyah) by ʿUmar ibn Fāriḍ (d. 632 AH / 1235 CE). The third work is a commentary on the "Song of the flute" from the beginning of the Mas̱navī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672 AH / 1273 CE). The manuscript was written in nastaʿlīq script by the well-known Iranian calligrapher Bābā Shāh ibn Sulṭān ʿAlī Iṣfahānī in 999 AH / 1591 CE. There is a note dated to the year 1105 AH / 1694 CE on fol. 1a indicating that the manuscript is made up of two papers: Samarqandī (for the text) and Dawlatābādī (for the margins). There are also seals dating between the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE and the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with incidentals in gold 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
Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 127. (Lavāyiḥ)
Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 129. (Lavāmiʿ)
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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