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Binding from Prayer Book
Walters manuscript W.579 is bound in a brown leather binding (with a flap). The binding is decorated with interconnected gold-tooled lobed medallions and discs with vine and floral motifs. The binding also includes an inner frame with a vine and scroll motif, a gold-tooled outer frame, and doublures with a central lobed oval and corner pendants with filigree decoration on a blue ground.
Provenance
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Vizier al-Shahid 'Ali Pasha, ca. 1130 AH/AD 1717 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf-seal impression of the Vizier dated 1130 AH/AD 1717 with the original shelf mark 1414 on fols. 2a, 2b, and 3a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1988 | Bindings from the Islamic World. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Iran, Gorgan (Astarabad) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Folio H: 9 1/4 x W: 6 1/2 in. (23.5 x 16.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.579.binding
