Incipit Page with Illuminated Headpiece, from the Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusraw Dihlavi

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.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/19/2015	Treatment	examined for exhibition; examined for loan; media consolidation

Exhibitions

• Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Emperor Akbar's Illustrated "Khamsa," 1597-1598. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2005-2006.
• Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. 2015-2016.

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.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters