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Colophon in Gold Tawqi‘ Script
(Manuscripts and Rare Books, Islamic World , Islamic Manuscripts)
While the texts of Walters manuscript W.581are written in Thuluth and Naskh scripts, the scribe used Tawqi" script to write the colophon, as was common in the Islamic manuscript tradition.
The scribe signs himself as Ridwan ibn Muhammad al-Tabizi and indicates that the manuscript was copied in 767 AH/AD 1366.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library, Konya, Turkey (?), 767 AH/AD 1366 [mode of acquisition unknown] [bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-'Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah… (fol.1a)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Turkey (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 10 5/8 x W: 7 1/16 in. (27 x 18 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.581.27A
