Binding from Collection of Poems (Divan)

Description This non-original binding from Walters manuscript W.632 probably dates to the late 11th century AH/AD 17th or12th century AH/AD 18th. The binding is red leather with central panels on the boards and the flap filled with gold-brocaded Safavid silk.

Provenance Muhammad Habib [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fol. 2b and invocation: ya kabikaj on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters