A Prince Returning from a Hunt and a Woman in a Pavilion

Description This folio from Walters manuscript W.626 is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece introducing the 1st book (daftar) of the Masnavi. A prince is shown on horseback with a gesture of surprise as a woman waits in a pavilion.

Provenance Ibrahim [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [round seal impression, Ibrahim (...) on front flyleaf iia]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters