Description
This incipit page with illuminated headpiece from Walters manuscript W.624 introduces the 1st poem of the Khamsah, Matla' al-anvar. The illumination was done by Mansur Naqqash ('dhahhabahu Mansur). His name is inscribed in the two small illuminated rectangles flanking the rubric.
Provenance
Muhammad Zaki, 1241 AH/AD 1825-1826 [mode of acquisition unknown] [oval seal, fols. 1a, 211a]; 'abd al-raji Muhammad Shafi', 1247 AH/AD 1831-1832 [mode of acquisition unknown] [rectangular seal fols. 1a, 211a]; Muhammad 'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [large oval seal with no date on fol. 211a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.