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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the Ḫamse (quintet) of the Ottoman Turkish poet and scholar ʿAṭāʾullāh bin Yaḥyá ʿAṭāʾī (d. 1044 AH / 1634 CE). Although different in content, this work takes its inspiration from the famous Persian Khamsah of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) and the Khamsah of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d. 725 AH / 1325 CE). This Ottoman copy of ʿAṭāʾī's work ends with a portion of his Dīvān (fols. 142b-151b) instead of the fifth poem (mesnevi), Ḥilyet ül-efkār. The text, written in nastaʿlīq script, was copied by Ḫeyrullah Ḫeyrī Çāvuşzade in 1133 AH / 1721 CE. There are thirty-eight illustrations, and illuminated incipits introduce the different poems (fols. 1b, 22b, 63b, 107b, and 142b). The brown leather binding is original to the manuscript.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink with chapter 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
For a detailed description of this manuscript, see Renda, Günsel. "An Illuminated 18th-Century Ottoman Hamse in the Walters Art Gallery." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 31 (1981): 15-32.
For the author, see "ʿAṭāʾī, ʿAṭāʾ Allāh b. Yaḥyā b. Pīr ʿAlī b. Naṣūḥ, known as Newʿī-zāde ʿAṭāʾī." Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2nd ed., s.v.
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
9 Jumādá II -- Rajab 1133 AH / 1721 CE (fols. 20b, 62b)
book
Original Binding
Brown leather binding (with flap); empty center panel with gold-painted frames
The primary language in this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928).
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Turkey
9 Jumādá II -- Rajab 1133 AH / 1721 CE (fols. 20b, 62b)
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928).
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the Ḫamse (quintet) of the Ottoman Turkish poet and scholar ʿAṭāʾullāh bin Yaḥyá ʿAṭāʾī (d. 1044 AH / 1634 CE). Although different in content, this work takes its inspiration from the famous Persian Khamsah of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) and the Khamsah of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d. 725 AH / 1325 CE). This Ottoman copy of ʿAṭāʾī's work ends with a portion of his Dīvān (fols. 142b-151b) instead of the fifth poem (mesnevi), Ḥilyet ül-efkār. The text, written in nastaʿlīq script, was copied by Ḫeyrullah Ḫeyrī Çāvuşzade in 1133 AH / 1721 CE. There are thirty-eight illustrations, and illuminated incipits introduce the different poems (fols. 1b, 22b, 63b, 107b, and 142b). The brown leather binding is original to the manuscript.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink with chapter 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
For a detailed description of this manuscript, see Renda, Günsel. "An Illuminated 18th-Century Ottoman Hamse in the Walters Art Gallery." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 31 (1981): 15-32.
For the author, see "ʿAṭāʾī, ʿAṭāʾ Allāh b. Yaḥyā b. Pīr ʿAlī b. Naṣūḥ, known as Newʿī-zāde ʿAṭāʾī." Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2nd ed., s.v.
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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