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Text title
Vernacular: تÙÙ ÙØ±ÙØ§Ù Ù ÙØ§ØªÙÙ
Author
Authority name: HÄtifÄ«, d. 1520 or 1
As-written name: Ê¿Abd AllÄh HÄtifÄ«
Name, in vernacular: عبد اÙÙÙ ÙØ§ØªÙÙ
Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 927 AH / 1520 CE
Abstract
This is a Safavid illuminated and illustrated copy of the History of Timur (Tamerlane) (r. 706 AH / 1370 CE -- 807 AH / 1405 CE), known as TÄ«mÅ«rnÄmah or áºafarnÄmah, composed by Ê¿Abd AllÄh HÄtifÄ« (d. 927 AH / 1520 CE) and written in imitation of NiáºÄmÄ«âs IskandarnÄmah. It was copied by PÄ«r Ê¿AlÄ« al-JÄmÄ« in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 4b-5a) and is illustrated with two paintings (fols. 37a and 75b). One painting depicts Timur at court and the other portrays Timur defeating the Khan of the Kipchaqs. The green leather binding with inner boards lined with ikat textile is attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Date
10th century AH / 16th CE
Scribe
As-written name: PÄ«r Ê¿AlÄ« al-JÄmÄ«
Name, in vernacular: Ù¾ÙØ± عÙÙ Ø§ÙØ¬Ø§Ù Ù
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Colophon
fol. 166a:Extent
Foliation: ii+166+i
Two sets of earlier foliations in Hindu-Arabic numerals, one in black and one in red
Collation
Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos
Dimensions
14.0 cm wide by 23.5 cm high
Written surface
7.5 cm wide by 16.0 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1b - 166a:Decoration:
Upper board outside:
Upper board inside:
fol. 4b:
fol. 5a:
fol. 37a:
fol. 75b:
Binding
The binding is not original.
Attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE; green leather (no flap); blind-stamped central oval and pendants; inner boards lined with ikat textile
Provenance
Seal impression: al-Ê¿abd YÄr â¦[?] ibn Aq Muḥammad, dated 1019 AH / 1610-11 CE (fol. 166a)
Date: Rajab 1269 AH / 1853 CE (fol. 4a)
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Bibliography
Simsar, Muhammed Ahmed. Oriental Manuscripts of the John Frederick Lewis Collection in the Free Library of Philadelphia: A Descriptive Catalogue with Forty-eight Illustrations. (Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1937), no. 43.
Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 232-4.
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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