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lluminated Incipit with Headpiece
This folio from Walters manuscript W.604 is an illuminated incipit page that introduces the 2nd poem of the Khamsah, Khusraw va Shirin. The folio has a headpiece in foliated New Abbasid (Broken Cursive) Style inscribed: dhikr al-qadim awlá bi-al-taqdim.
Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Iran (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 9 1/4 x W: 6 5/16 in. (23.5 x 16 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.604.26B
