Binding from Epic of Timur

Description This non-original binding from Walters manuscript W.648 is attributable to the 13th century AH/AD 19th. The binding is composed of green leather and has no flap. It has a blind-stamped central oval and pendants and the inner boards are lined with ikat textile.

Provenance al-'abd Yar … (?) ibn Aq Muhammad, 1019 AH/AD 1610-1611 [mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fol. 166a]; Anonymous owner, Rajab 1269 AH/AD 1853 [mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fol. 4a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters