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Walters Ms. W.623, Collection of poetry

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Manuscript

Collection of poetry


Text title

Khamsah-i Dihlavī

Vernacular: خمسه دهلوى

Qirān-i saʿdayn

Vernacular: قران سعدين

Nuh sipihr

Vernacular: نه سپهر


Author

Authority name: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325

As-written name: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī

Name, in vernacular: امير خسرو دهلوى

Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 725 AH / 1325 CE


Abstract

This illuminated and illustrated manuscript contains the Khamsah (quintet) and two historical poems (masnavi), Qirān-i saʿdayn and Nuh sipihr, by Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d. 725 AH / 1325 CE). The codex is dated 1017 AH / 1609 CE and was produced in Safavid Iran. All texts are written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter headings in red. The manuscript opens with an illuminated and illustrated frontispiece of a hunting and court scene in the early Safavid style (fols. 1b-2a). The first text is Khamsah-i Dihlavī (fols. 2b-192a), which is introduced by an illuminated incipit and titlepiece with the title of the first poem of the quintet and the author's name. The second text is Qirān-i saʿdayn, a historical poem (masnavi) about the meeting of Sultan Muʿizz al-Dīn Kayqubād and his father, Nāṣir al-Din Bughrā Khān, on the banks of the Sarjū in Oudh. It is also introduced with an illuminated incipit and titlepiece (fol. 193b). The third text is Nuh sipihr, a historical poem (masnavi) describing the glories of Sultan Quṭb al-Dīn Mubārak Shāh Khaljī’s time, introduced with an illuminated incipit and headpiece (fol. 223b). The dark brown leather binding is original to the manuscript.


Date

30 Ramaḍān -- 22 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1017 AH / 1609 CE




Genre

Literary -- Poetry

Historical


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.


Colophon

fol. 64a:
  2. Transliteration: Fol. 64a: tammat al-kitāb Laylá Majnūn-i Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī dar /1/ tārīkh-i salkh-i Ramaz̤ān al-mubārak sanat-i sabʿ ʿashar va alf /2/; Fol. 111b: tammat al-kitāb bi-ʿawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb tamām shud kitāb /1/ Iskandar nāmah-i Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī dar tārīkh-i s̱ānī va ʿishrīn /2/ shahr Dhū al-Ḥijjah sanat-i sabʿ ʿashar va alf /3/
  3. Comment: Two colophons on 64a and 111b give the dates of copying and the titles of the individual poems: Majnūn va Laylá and Āyinah-i Iskanadarī

Support material

Paper

Mostly laid paper; some leaves European with watermarks


Extent

Foliation: i+272

Each poem of the Khamsah foliated separately using Hindu-Arabic numerals


Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Comments:


Dimensions

22.0 cm wide by 34.5 cm high


Written surface

fols. 1b - 192a: 12.0 cm wide by 22.5 cm high

fols. 193b - 223a: 12.0 cm wide by 22.5 cm high

fols. 223b - 269a: 12.0 cm wide by 22.5 cm high


Layout

fols. 1b - 192a:
  1. Columns: 4
  2. Ruled lines: 25
  3. Framing lines in gold, blue, red, brown, green, and white
fols. 193b - 223a:
  1. Columns: 4
  2. Ruled lines: 25
fols. 223b - 269a:
  1. Columns: 4
  2. Ruled lines: 25

Contents:

fols. 1b - 192a:
  1. Title: Khamsah-i Dihlavī
  2. Author: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325
  3. Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم خطبه قدس است بملك قديم...
  4. Text note: Contains the following poems: Matlaʿ al-anvār (fols. 2b-39a), Majnūn va Laylá (fols. 40b-64a), Āyinah-i Iskanadarī (fols. 64b-111a), Hasht bihisht (fols. 111b-147a), and Shīrīn va Khusraw (fols. 147b-192a)
  5. Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter headings in red
  6. Decoration note: Seventeen illustrations; illuminated and illustrated frontispiece inscribed with the title and the author's name (fols. 1b-2a); illuminated incipits with titlepieces and cloud-bands between the lines, some with decorated borders; frame
fols. 193b - 223a:
  1. Title: Qirān-i saʿdayn
  2. Author: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325
  3. Incipit: حمد خداوند سرايم نخست...
  4. Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapter headings in red
  5. Decoration note: One illustration; illuminated incipit with titlepiece and cloud-bands; frame
fols. 223b - 269a:
  1. Title: Nuh sipihr
  2. Author: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325
  3. Incipit: خدارا كنم بر سر نامه يد...
  4. Text note: Incomplete at end
  5. Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script; chapter headings not filled in
  6. Decoration note: Five illustrations; illuminated incipit with headpiece and cloud-bands; frame


Binding

The binding is original.

Dark brown leather (without flap); dentelle style with central ovals, pendants, cornerpieces, and frames decorated and brushed with gold


Provenance

Ownership statement: Ibn Abī Ḥusayn ʿAlī [...] ʿAlī, plus seal (fol. 1a)


Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Bibliography

Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. 2. (London: British Museum, 1879-83), 611-612.

Seyller, John. Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Walters Art Museum Khamsa of Amīr Khusraw of Delhi. (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2001), 155.


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.


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