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 and illustrated copy of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā (Joseph and the Potiphar's wife) by Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). According to the colophon, the text was written by Muḥammad Mīrak in Kashmir in 1190 AH / 1776 CE on the order of Badal Khān Ṣāḥib (fol 170b). Incomplete at the beginning, the text is illustrated with thirty-four paintings.
Written in black Indian nastaʿlīq script with section headings in red
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
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.
Kashmir
Thursday 14 Ṣafar 1190 AH / 1776 CE, during the reign of Navāb Amīr Khān
book
Non-original Binding
Brown lacquer (no flap); decorated central and outer panels
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Kashmir
Thursday 14 Ṣafar 1190 AH / 1776 CE, during the reign of Navāb Amīr Khān
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā (Joseph and the Potiphar's wife) by Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). According to the colophon, the text was written by Muḥammad Mīrak in Kashmir in 1190 AH / 1776 CE on the order of Badal Khān Ṣāḥib (fol 170b). Incomplete at the beginning, the text is illustrated with thirty-four paintings.
Written in black Indian nastaʿlīq script with section headings in red
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
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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