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Manuscript
Selection of poems
Text title
Vernacular: Ù ÙØªØ®Ø¨ جا٠Ù
Author
Authority name: JaÌmiÌ, 1414-1492
As-written name: NÅ«r al-DÄ«n Ê¿Abd al-RaḥmÄn ibn Aḥmad JÄmÄ«
Name, in vernacular: ÙÙØ± Ø§ÙØ¯Ù٠عبد Ø§ÙØ±ØÙ ا٠ب٠اØÙ د جا٠Ù
Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 898 AH / 1492 CE
Abstract
This manuscript is an illuminated Timurid copy of a selection of poems by NÅ«r al-DÄ«n Ê¿Abd al-RaḥmÄn JÄmÄ« (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). The colophon indicates that it was copied in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) by Sulá¹Än Ê¿AlÄ« in 899 AH / 1493-4 CE (fol. 70b). The manuscript opens with an illuminated incipit with an inscribed headpiece. The black leather binding, which is original to the manuscript, has a stamped central lobed oval, pendants, and cornerpieces, which are all covered with cloudband motifs.The doublures of red leather with similar design are decorated with filigree work on a blue ground. There is an erased bequest (waqf) seal and registration statement, probably belonging to the Sultan Ê¿UthmÄn (reg. 1027-31 AH / 1618-22 CE) (fol. 1a).
Origin
Herat (present-day Afghanistan)
Scribe
As-written name: Sulá¹Än Ê¿AlÄ«
Name, in vernacular: Ø³ÙØ·Ø§Ù عÙÙ
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Colophon
fol. 70b:Support material
Paper
Thick, well-polished, off-white paper
Extent
Foliation: iii+70+iii
Collation
Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos
Dimensions
11.5 cm wide by 17.0 cm high
Written surface
7.0 cm wide by 11.0 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1b - 70b:Decoration:
Upper board outside:
Upper board inside:
fol. 1b:
fol. 70b:
Binding
The binding is original.
Black leather binding (with flap); stamped central lobed oval, pendants, and cornerpieces, all decorated with a cloudband motif; red doublures with central lobed oval, pendants, and cornerpieces decorated with filigree work on a blue ground; strip of marbled paper at hinges
Provenance
Name of scribe, date, and place of copying given in colophon (fol. 70b)
Erased bequest (waqf) seal and registration statement, probably belonging to Sultan Ê¿UthmÄn (reg. 1027-31 AH / 1618-22 CE) (fol. 1a)
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita
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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