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.
These six leaves come from a historical Timurid work entitled Majmaʿ al-tavārīkh (Collection of chronicles) by Ḥāfiẓ-i Abrū (d. 833 AH / 1430 CE), that was copied and illustrated around 829 AH / 1425 CE. Two known Timurid illustrated copies of Majmaʿ al-tavārīkh from the ninth century AH / fifteenth CE are the dispersed manuscript previously in the collection of Emile Tabbagh and Parish Watson (ca. 829 AH / 1425 CE) and a copy dated 829 AH / 1425 CE (Istanbul, H.1653). The Walters' leaves come from the former. The text is written in naskh script in black, red, and reddish-brown ink; chapter headings are written in tawqīʿ script in red ink.
Main text written in naskh script in black, red, and reddish-brown; chapter headings written in tawqīʿ script 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
Grube, Ernst J., and Maria Alberta Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), 53-55.
For the author and his works, see Subtelny, Maria Eva, and Charles Melville. "Ḥāfeẓ-e Abru." Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Leoni, Francesca. "A Folio from a Timurid Historical Manuscript in the Princeton University Art Museum." Record of the Art Museum (Princeton University) 68 (2009): 61-67.
Soudavar, Abolala. Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection. (New York: Rizzoli, 1992), 64-66.
A Magnificent Collection of Near Eastern and Early Mediterranean Art ... Property of the Estate of the Late Emile Tabbagh, Paris and New York. Auction catalog January 3-4, 1936. New York: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 1936.
Canby, Sheila. Princes, Poets, and Paladins: Islamic and Indian Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan. (London: British Museum Press, 1998), 28-31.
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
Early 9th century AH / 15th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
Early 9th century AH / 15th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
These six leaves come from a historical Timurid work entitled Majmaʿ al-tavārīkh (Collection of chronicles) by Ḥāfiẓ-i Abrū (d. 833 AH / 1430 CE), that was copied and illustrated around 829 AH / 1425 CE. Two known Timurid illustrated copies of Majmaʿ al-tavārīkh from the ninth century AH / fifteenth CE are the dispersed manuscript previously in the collection of Emile Tabbagh and Parish Watson (ca. 829 AH / 1425 CE) and a copy dated 829 AH / 1425 CE (Istanbul, H.1653). The Walters' leaves come from the former. The text is written in naskh script in black, red, and reddish-brown ink; chapter headings are written in tawqīʿ script in red ink.
Main text written in naskh script in black, red, and reddish-brown; chapter headings written in tawqīʿ script 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
Grube, Ernst J., and Maria Alberta Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), 53-55.
For the author and his works, see Subtelny, Maria Eva, and Charles Melville. "Ḥāfeẓ-e Abru." Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Leoni, Francesca. "A Folio from a Timurid Historical Manuscript in the Princeton University Art Museum." Record of the Art Museum (Princeton University) 68 (2009): 61-67.
Soudavar, Abolala. Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection. (New York: Rizzoli, 1992), 64-66.
A Magnificent Collection of Near Eastern and Early Mediterranean Art ... Property of the Estate of the Late Emile Tabbagh, Paris and New York. Auction catalog January 3-4, 1936. New York: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 1936.
Canby, Sheila. Princes, Poets, and Paladins: Islamic and Indian Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan. (London: British Museum Press, 1998), 28-31.
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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