Luhrasp Enthroned in a Garden Pavilion

Description This folio from Walters manuscript W.600 is the right side of a double-page illustration introducing the Book of Luhrasp. The inscription in the middle 8-pointed star of the titlepiece reads: Kitab-i Luhrasb namah.

Exhibitions

• Paradise Imagined: Images of the Garden in the Islamic and Christian World. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2012.

Provenance Ahmad [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression with name on fol. 1a]; Unknown owner, 1789 [mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership entry dated 12 Jumadá I 1204 AH/AD 1789 on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters