Description
This folio from Walters manuscript W.606 contains 1 of 6 colophons in Arabic with the name of the scribe. The colophons are dated to show that the various poems of the Khamsah were not executed consecutively; dates as follows: 29 Dhu al-Hijjah 923 AH (fol. 32a); 7 Rabi' I 924 AH (fol. 113a); Safar 924 AH (fol. 169a); 6 Dhu al-Hijjah 923 AH (fol. 234a); 19 Muharram 924 AH (fol. 320a); 5 Muharram 924 AH (fol. 368a).
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Transliteration] qad faragha min tahrīr hadhā al-kitāb al-mawsūm bi-Iqbāl nānah /1/ Iskandarī min musannafāt afdal al-shu'arā wa- /2/ afsah al-bulaghā wa-akmal al-hukamā Shaykh Nizāmī /3/ 'alá yad al-'abd al-faqīr Muhammad al-mashhūr /4/ bi-Mūsá al-Mudhahhib fī 5 /5/ Muharram sanat 924 /6/ m (= tamma) /7/
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters
