Incipit with Illuminated Headpiece

Description Provenance Credit

Description This incipit page from Walters manuscript W.607 has an illuminated headpiece; it begins the Sharafnamah, the 1st part of the 5th poem of the Khamsah, the Iskandarnamah.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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Creators

Yadkar al-Katib (Scribe)
Nizami Ganjavi (Azerbaijani, died 605 AH/AD 1209) (Author)

Period

934-935 AH/AD 1528-1529 (Safavid)

Medium

ink and pigments on cream-colored laid paper
(Manuscripts & Rare Books)

Accession Number

W.607.180B

Measurements

H: 11 13/16 x W: 7 1/16 in. (30 x 18 cm)

Geographies

Iran (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View

Binding from Five Poems (Quintet)	Title
12th century AH/AD 18th century (Zand)	Period
W.607.binding	Accession

Aristotle Teaching his Students	Title
Folio: 934-935 AH/AD 1528-1529; Miniature repainted: 12th-early 13th century AH/AD 18th-early 19th century (Safavid)	Period
W.607.268B	Accession

Alexander the Great at the Fountain of Life with the Prophets Khidr and Ilyas	Title
Folio: 934-935 AH/AD 1528-1529; Miniature repainted: 12th-early 13th century AH/AD 18th-early 19th century (Safavid)	Period
W.607.258B	Accession

Alexander the Great Admires his Portrait Ordered by Queen Nushabah	Title
Folio: 934-935 AH/AD 1528-1529; Miniature repainted: 12th-early 13th century AH/AD 18th-early 19th century (Safavid)	Period
W.607.223B	Accession
nizami, safavid	Tags

Death of King Darius	Title
Folio: 934-935 AH/AD 1528-1529; Miniature repainted: 12th-early 13th century AH/AD 18th-early 19th century (Safavid)	Period
W.607.210B	Accession