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Incipit Page with Illuminated Titlepiece
This incipit page from Walters manuscript W.610 has an illuminated titlepiece inscribed with the title of the 2nd poem of the Khamsah: Kitab-i Khusraw va Shirin.
This folio from Walters also contains 1 of 6 short colophons in Arabic with neither date nor scribe's name.
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: 12 13/16 x W: 7 7/8 in. (32.5 x 20 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.610.31B
