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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 a mystic poem (masnavi) entitled Ṣifat al-ʿāshiqīn (Qualities of lovers) by Nūr al-Dīn Hilālī (d. 936 AH / 1529-30 CE). It was written in nastaʿlīq script by Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī in 978 AH / 1570-1 CE. The manuscript opens with a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a), followed by a double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a). Borders throughout the codex are illuminated with floral and bird motifs. The lacquer binding is original to the manuscript.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with ploychrome chapter headings
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
Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 351-2.
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
978 AH / 1570-1 CE
book
Original Binding
Lacquer (without flap); decorated with animals and floral motifs; doublures with dentelle-style decoration in gold and blue
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
978 AH / 1570-1 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of a mystic poem (masnavi) entitled Ṣifat al-ʿāshiqīn (Qualities of lovers) by Nūr al-Dīn Hilālī (d. 936 AH / 1529-30 CE). It was written in nastaʿlīq script by Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī in 978 AH / 1570-1 CE. The manuscript opens with a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a), followed by a double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a). Borders throughout the codex are illuminated with floral and bird motifs. The lacquer binding is original to the manuscript.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with ploychrome chapter headings
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
Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 351-2.
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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