This illuminated and illustrated anthology was compiled in 1105 AH / 1693 CE in Safavid Iran. The manuscript includes works by such poets as Jāmī, Azārī, Fayz̤ī, Navāʾī, and Saʿdī. The margins of colored and marbled paper are decorated with stenciled, illuminated, and painted motifs, including an angel, a young man reading a book, a youth pouring wine, and various animals. There are five paintings in the codex (fols. 8b, 16b, 17a, 19b, and 24b). The green leather binding is not original to the codex and probably dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black 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
Iran
Muḥarram 1105 AH / 1693 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Probably dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE; green leather-covered boards with brown leather spine (no flap); marbled paper pastedowns
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
Muḥarram 1105 AH / 1693 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This illuminated and illustrated anthology was compiled in 1105 AH / 1693 CE in Safavid Iran. The manuscript includes works by such poets as Jāmī, Azārī, Fayz̤ī, Navāʾī, and Saʿdī. The margins of colored and marbled paper are decorated with stenciled, illuminated, and painted motifs, including an angel, a young man reading a book, a youth pouring wine, and various animals. There are five paintings in the codex (fols. 8b, 16b, 17a, 19b, and 24b). The green leather binding is not original to the codex and probably dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black 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
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