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Walters Ms. W.707, Single leaf of a falconer on horsebackBrowse images (Browse images in a new window) | TEI in XML format
Manuscript
Single leaf of a falconer on horseback
Text title
Falconer on horseback
Abstract
This is an Ottoman Turkish colored drawing of a falconer on horseback produced in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The central work is framed by two additional drawings: a lion in the upper register and a lion killing a deer in the lower register. Both reference earlier Persian compositions. The verses above are written in small nastaʿlīq script, the first two in Persian and the third in Ottoman Turkish. The border is of blue-tinted paper.
Date
11th century AH / 17th CE
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928).
Extent
Foliation: Not applicable
Dimensions
14.0 cm wide by 25.0 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. W.707a - W.707b:Decoration:
fol. W.707a:
fol. W.707b:
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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