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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an Ottoman illustrated and illuminated copy of the Tuḥfet ül-aḫyār, which is an Ottoman Turkish version of the well-known story of Sindbad (Sindbādnāmah), written by ʿAbdülkerīm bin Muḥammed during the reign of Sultan Süleyman (Soliman) (reg. 926 AH / 1520 CE -- 974 AH / 1566 CE). The text is written in black naskh script with incidentals in gold and red, and chapter headings are in gold. The manuscript dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE and opens with an illuminated incipit page (fol. 1b). There are a total of six illustrations.
Written in small naskh script in black ink with some words in gold and red; chapter headings in gold
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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
Renda, Günsel. "'Sindbādnāma': An Early Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript Unique in Iconography and Style," Muqarnas 21 (Essays in Honor of J. M. Rogers) (2004): 311-322.
For the various versions of the this story see “Sindbād al-Ḥakīm (Syntipas).” Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed, Vol. 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.
Turkey
10th century AH / 16th CE
book
Non-original Binding
Modern brown leather (with flap)
The primary language in this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928). The secondary language of this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Turkey
10th century AH / 16th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928). The secondary language of this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an Ottoman illustrated and illuminated copy of the Tuḥfet ül-aḫyār, which is an Ottoman Turkish version of the well-known story of Sindbad (Sindbādnāmah), written by ʿAbdülkerīm bin Muḥammed during the reign of Sultan Süleyman (Soliman) (reg. 926 AH / 1520 CE -- 974 AH / 1566 CE). The text is written in black naskh script with incidentals in gold and red, and chapter headings are in gold. The manuscript dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE and opens with an illuminated incipit page (fol. 1b). There are a total of six illustrations.
Written in small naskh script in black ink with some words in gold and red; chapter headings in gold
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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
Renda, Günsel. "'Sindbādnāma': An Early Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript Unique in Iconography and Style," Muqarnas 21 (Essays in Honor of J. M. Rogers) (2004): 311-322.
For the various versions of the this story see “Sindbād al-Ḥakīm (Syntipas).” Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed, Vol. 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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