Double-page Illuminated Frontispiece

Description This folio from Walters manuscript W.609 is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece containing 2 small medallions. One gives the name of the illuminator as 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Abd al-Fattah ibn 'Ali.

Provenance Muhammad Asharf ibn Muhammad Khatam al-Husayni, 1173 AH/AD 1759-1760 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fols. 1a and 401a]; Husayn ?[?], 1308 AH/AD 1890-1891 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement on fol. 1b]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters