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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This album of painting and calligraphy was compiled in the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE or early fourteenth century AH / twentieth CE, most likely in Turkey. The signed pieces of calligraphy represent nine different Persian calligraphers, including Sulṭān ʿAlī al-Mashhadī, Sulṭān Murād al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Niʿmat Allāh al-Mashhadī, Muḥammad Aṣghar, Shāh Muḥammad al-Mashhadī, and Muḥammad Zamān. There are thirty-one paintings, the majority of which are executed in the Safavid style but are attributable to the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE or early fourteenth century AH / twentieth CE. They were most likely made in Turkey. The borders are polychrome and marbled gold-sprinkled paper. The brown leather binding decorated with landscape scenes and brushed with gold is contemporary with the compiling of the album.
Written in nastaʿlīq script by Muḥammad Ḥusayn (fol. 2a), Sulṭān Murād al-Ḥusaynī (fol. 6a), Sulṭān ʿAlī al-Mashhadī (fol. 10b), Niʿmat Allāh al-Mashhadī (fol. 12a), Muḥammad Aṣghar (fols. 18b and 19b), Muḥammad Zamān (fol. 20b), Mīr ʿAlī (fol. 22a), ʿAlī (fol. 14b), and Shāh Muḥammad al-Mashhadī (fol. 32b)
artist: Aqā Riz̤ā
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
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 and Turkey
10th century AH / 16th CE -- 14th century AH / 20th CE
album
Unknown Binding
Contemporary with the compiling of the album; brown leather (with flap); decorated with a landscape scene brushed with gold; doublures of red leather, richly decorated with floral motifs
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran and Turkey
10th century AH / 16th CE -- 14th century AH / 20th CE
album
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This album of painting and calligraphy was compiled in the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE or early fourteenth century AH / twentieth CE, most likely in Turkey. The signed pieces of calligraphy represent nine different Persian calligraphers, including Sulṭān ʿAlī al-Mashhadī, Sulṭān Murād al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Niʿmat Allāh al-Mashhadī, Muḥammad Aṣghar, Shāh Muḥammad al-Mashhadī, and Muḥammad Zamān. There are thirty-one paintings, the majority of which are executed in the Safavid style but are attributable to the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE or early fourteenth century AH / twentieth CE. They were most likely made in Turkey. The borders are polychrome and marbled gold-sprinkled paper. The brown leather binding decorated with landscape scenes and brushed with gold is contemporary with the compiling of the album.
Written in nastaʿlīq script by Muḥammad Ḥusayn (fol. 2a), Sulṭān Murād al-Ḥusaynī (fol. 6a), Sulṭān ʿAlī al-Mashhadī (fol. 10b), Niʿmat Allāh al-Mashhadī (fol. 12a), Muḥammad Aṣghar (fols. 18b and 19b), Muḥammad Zamān (fol. 20b), Mīr ʿAlī (fol. 22a), ʿAlī (fol. 14b), and Shāh Muḥammad al-Mashhadī (fol. 32b)
artist: Aqā Riz̤ā
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
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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