Description
This folio from Walters manucscript W.609 contains an Arabic colophon that gives the title of the work and the scribe's name.
Provenance
Muhammad Asharf ibn Muhammad Khatam al-Husayni, 1173 AH/AD 1759-1760 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fols. 1a and 401a]; Husayn …[?], 1308 AH/AD 1890-1891 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement on fol. 1b]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Transliteration] tammat [sic] al-kitāb al-Khamsah al-mubārak bi-'awn Allāh ta'ālá wa-tabāraka /1/ 'alá yad al-'abd al-da'īf al-mudhnib al-rājī ilá rahmat Allāh /2/ al-samad al-qawī Yār Muhammad al-Harawī /3/ ghafara Allāh dhunūbahu /4/ m (= tamma) /5/
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters
