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Incipit with Illuminated Headpiece and Titlepiece

Nizami Ganjavi (Azerbaijani, died 605 AH/AD 1209) (Author)
Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (died ca. 729 AH/AD 1328) (Author)
10th century AH/AD 16th century (Safavid (?))
ink and pigments on tinted laid paper: cream for text area and rose or light brown for margins
(Manuscripts and Rare Books, Islamic World , Islamic Manuscripts)

This incipit page from Walters manuscript W.657 has an illuminated headpiece and, in the lower panel, a titlepiece inscribed Laylá va Majnun.

Provenance
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Mundir [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression with motton on fol. 280b]; Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabrizi, Tabriz, 1295 AH/AD 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown] [note regarding re-binding and restoration of this volume by the bookbinder on front flyleaf iia]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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Geographies

India (Place of Origin) Iran (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 11 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28 x 19 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.

W.657.100B

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Three Collections of Poetry

Nizami Ganjavi (Azerbaijani, died 605 AH/AD 1209)
10th century AH/AD 16th century (Safavid (?))
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