Binding from Five Poems (Quintet)

Description This brown leather binding from Walters manuscript W.609 has a stamped center and side panels brushed with gold, and no flap. The binding has an inscription in the upper and lower rectangles, and doublures with blue dentelle-style filigree work. The binding may be original to the manuscript but was repaired at a later stage in the codex's history.

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.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters