Binding from Three Collections of Poetry

Description This non-original, red leather binding from Walters manuscript W.657 has a central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces (with no flap). The binding has gold-painted arabesque decoration. It was re-bound and restored by a bookbinder of Tabriz, Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabrizi (see note, signed and dated 1295 AH/AD 1878 on front flyleaf iia).

Provenance Mundir [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression with motton on fol. 280b]; Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabrizi, Tabriz, 1295 AH/AD 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown] [note regarding re-binding and restoration of this volume by the bookbinder on front flyleaf iia]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters