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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is a drawing depicting a man spinning cotton. It was executed in the mid tenth century AH / sixteenth CE in Iran, possibly in Qazwīn. The drawing is framed by verses in nastaʿlīq script inscribed in panels, and the whole is surrounded by an outer border with animals and vegetal decoration on a blue background.
Written in nastaʿlīq 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
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), 117.
Robinson, B. W. Persian Drawings from the 14th through the 19th Century. New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1965.
Atil, Esin. The Brush of the Masters: Drawings from Iran and India. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
Swietochowski, M. L., and S. Babaie. Persian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989.
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
Mid 10th century AH / 16th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
Mid 10th century AH / 16th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is a drawing depicting a man spinning cotton. It was executed in the mid tenth century AH / sixteenth CE in Iran, possibly in Qazwīn. The drawing is framed by verses in nastaʿlīq script inscribed in panels, and the whole is surrounded by an outer border with animals and vegetal decoration on a blue background.
Written in nastaʿlīq 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
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), 117.
Robinson, B. W. Persian Drawings from the 14th through the 19th Century. New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1965.
Atil, Esin. The Brush of the Masters: Drawings from Iran and India. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
Swietochowski, M. L., and S. Babaie. Persian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989.
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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