Incipit Page with Illuminated Titlepiece

Description This incipit page from Walters manuscript W.611 has an illuminated headpiece inscribed hadha kitab Khamsah-i Mawlana Shaykh-i Nizami. It introduces the 1st poem of the Khamsah, Makhzan al-asrar. There is interlinear gilt decoration on this page and the facing page.

Provenance Ibrahim [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; [partly visible seal impression dated [1]230 (?) AH on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters