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Walters Ms. W.679, Two leaves depicting the Prophet Muhammad, Ali, and his sons Hasan and HusaynBrowse images (Browse images in a new window) | TEI in XML format
Manuscript
Two leaves depicting the Prophet Muhammad, Ali, and his sons Hasan and Husayn
Text title
The Prophet Muhammad, Ali, and his sons Hasan and Husayn
Abstract
These two leaves are Ottoman Turkish illustrations. One depicts the Prophet Muhammad praying at the Kaʿbah, and the other depicts the Prophet Muhammad, ʿAlī, and his young sons Ḥasan and Ḥusayn. The illustrations were executed in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. They are presently mounted on the first and last leaves of an illuminated manuscript copied in nastaʿlīq script in 798 AH / 1396 CE by Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥusaynī.
Date
11th century AH / 17th CE
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Dimensions
15.0 cm wide by 25.0 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. W.679Aa - W.679Bb:Decoration:
fol. W.679Aa:
fol. W.679Ab:
fol. W.679Ba:
fol. W.679Bb:
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Bibliography
Renard, John, ed. Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998), 118; fig. 22.
Milstein, Rachel. Miniature Painting in Ottoman Baghdad. (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazdâ, 1990), 114; plate 43.
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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