Text Page of Shahnamah Preface

Description This folio from Walters manuscript W.600 is the 1st page of the preface ordered by Baysunghur in 829 AH/AD 1425-1426. The text is largely written in black Nasta'liq script with incidentals in blue and gold. The preface ends on fol. 14a with a colophon.

Provenance Ahmad [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression with name on fol. 1a]; Unknown owner, 1789 [mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership entry dated 12 Jumadá I 1204 AH/AD 1789 on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters