Illuminated Incipit with Headpiece

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

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters