This illuminated and illustrated Safavid manuscript, executed in Safavid Iran in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, contains two poetical works: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE) and Mihr va Mushtarī by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ‘Aṣṣār Tabrīzī (d. 784 AH / 1382 CE). The two texts can be read side by side on the same page, either written horizontally or obliquely. There are four paintings illustrating the text (fols. 58b, 91a, 159a, and 180b). The brown leather binding with dentelle-style decoration in multi-colored filigree work may date to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, although it is unlikely to be original to the manuscript.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter/section headings in white
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
Iran
10th century AH / 16th CE
book
Non-original Binding
May date to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE; brown leather (no flap); dentelle-style decoration in multi-colored filigree work
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Oval seal: ʿAbduhu Muḥammad Kāẓim
Square seal: ʿIṣmat Zīnat Sulṭān, dated 12[?]49 AH / 1833 CE
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
10th century AH / 16th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Oval seal: ʿAbduhu Muḥammad Kāẓim
Square seal: ʿIṣmat Zīnat Sulṭān, dated 12[?]49 AH / 1833 CE
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This illuminated and illustrated Safavid manuscript, executed in Safavid Iran in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, contains two poetical works: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE) and Mihr va Mushtarī by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ‘Aṣṣār Tabrīzī (d. 784 AH / 1382 CE). The two texts can be read side by side on the same page, either written horizontally or obliquely. There are four paintings illustrating the text (fols. 58b, 91a, 159a, and 180b). The brown leather binding with dentelle-style decoration in multi-colored filigree work may date to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, although it is unlikely to be original to the manuscript.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter/section headings in white
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
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