Illuminated Incipit with Headpiece

Description This illuminated incipit page from Walters manuscript W.604 introduces the 4th poem of the Khamsah, Haft paykar, and has a headpiece inscribed with the doxological formula (basmalah) in a foliated New Abbasid (Broken Cursive) Style.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters