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.
Copied by Kamāl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qarāmānī in a clear, vocalized naskh script, this manuscript of the Epic of Alexander the Great or the Alexander romance (Iskendernāme) by Aḥmet bin Ibrāhīm Aḥmedī (d. 815 AH / 1413 CE) was completed in Aleppo (Ḥalab) in 891 AH / 1486 CE. Written in two columns and surrounded by a frame, it opens with an illuminated title page (fol. 2a), followed by an incipit page with illuminated titlepiece inscribed al-mulk li-Llāh al-wāḥid (Supreme authority belongs to the One God).
Written in large, vocalized naskh script in black ink with chapter/section headings in blue; colophon in tawqīʿ script
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
For more information on the Alexander romance, see "Iskandar Nāma." Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed. s.v.
Minorsky, Vladimir. The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts and Miniatures. Introduction by J. V. S. Wilkinson. (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1958), 407.
Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), 193.
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.
Ḥalab (Aleppo, Syria)
Mid Jumādá II 891 AH / 1486 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Brown leather (with flap), blind-stamped and decorated with a central oval and pendants
The primary language in this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928).
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Ḥalab (Aleppo, Syria)
Mid Jumādá II 891 AH / 1486 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928).
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Copied by Kamāl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qarāmānī in a clear, vocalized naskh script, this manuscript of the Epic of Alexander the Great or the Alexander romance (Iskendernāme) by Aḥmet bin Ibrāhīm Aḥmedī (d. 815 AH / 1413 CE) was completed in Aleppo (Ḥalab) in 891 AH / 1486 CE. Written in two columns and surrounded by a frame, it opens with an illuminated title page (fol. 2a), followed by an incipit page with illuminated titlepiece inscribed al-mulk li-Llāh al-wāḥid (Supreme authority belongs to the One God).
Written in large, vocalized naskh script in black ink with chapter/section headings in blue; colophon in tawqīʿ script
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
For more information on the Alexander romance, see "Iskandar Nāma." Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed. s.v.
Minorsky, Vladimir. The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts and Miniatures. Introduction by J. V. S. Wilkinson. (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1958), 407.
Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), 193.
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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