Description
This folio from Walters manuscript W.559 contains a colophon giving the name of the calligrapher Mubakshah ibn Qutb and the date of copying.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Transliteration] In Arabic, vocalized: katabahu al-faqīru ilá Allāhi ta 'ālá /1/ Mubākshāhu ibn Qutbin ghafara Allāhu /2/ dhunūbahumā wa-satara 'uyūbahumā fī Sha'bāni /3/ sanata thalāth wa-'ishrīna wa-sab'a mi'atin /4/ hāmidan li-Llāhi ta'ālá 'alá ni'amihi wa-musalliyan /5/ 'alá nabīyihi Muhammadin wa-ālihi al-ghurari al-kirāmi /6/ al-tayyibīna al-tāhirīna wa-musalliman taslīman /7/
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters
