Text Page with Colophon

Description This leaf, Walters W.679, is the back of an illustration of the Prophet Muhammad praying at the Ka'bah from the 11th century AH/AD 17th. It is an illuminated text page written in Nasta'liq script with a colophon dated 798 AH/AD 1396 by Abu Sa'id al-Husayni.

Exhibitions

• The Divine Word and Sacred Sites of Islam. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1997.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters