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Illuminated Incipit with Headpiece
This illuminated incipit page from Walters manuscript W.604 introduces the Iqbalnamah, the 2nd part of the 5th poem of the Khamsah, Iskandarnamah, and has a headpiece with an inscription in foliated New Abbasid (Broken Cursive) Style reading: wa-adhkuru Allah a'lá wa-akbar.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
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.604.281B
