Double-page Illuminated Incipit

Description This folio from Walters manuscript W.627 is the left side of a double-page illuminated incipit with inscriptions in the upper and lower panels in New Abbasid (Broken Cursive) Style, reading al-'uzmah li-LLah and al-qudrah li-Llah, respectively.

Exhibitions

• Masterpieces of Ornament. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988.

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

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, after 1894