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Atai (Uzbeki, died 1044 AH/AD 1634) (Author)
Khayr Allah Khayri Jawush Zadah (Scribe)
1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman)
ink and pigments on laid paper
(Manuscripts and Rare Books, Islamic World , Islamic Manuscripts)

This folio from Walters manuscript W.666 contains 1 of 2 colophons (fols. 21a and 62b); the first (in Turkish) gives a fuller name of the scribe; the second (in Arabic) gives the name of the scribe as Khayr Allah Jawush Zadah and the date of copying as Friday, mid Rajab 1133 AH/AD 1721.

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[Transliteration] al-hamd li-Llāh 'alá al-tamām wa-'lá rasūlih wa-<ā>lih afdal al-salāh wa-al-salām /1/ 'alá yad afqar al-wará Khayr Allāh Jāwush zādah matta'anā Allāh /2/ bi-al-husná wa-ziyādah [sic] qad waqa'a al-farāgh min tahrīr hadhihi /3/ al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī waqt al-duhá yawm al-jum'ah /4/ min awāsit Rajab al-murajjab li-sanat thal<ā>th /5/ wa-thalathīn wa-mi<'>ah wa-alf min /6/ hijrah [sic] al-nabawīyah /7/ m (= tamma) /8/

Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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Geographies

Turkey (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 8 1/4 x W: 6 1/8 in. (21 x 15.5 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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W.666.62B

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Five Poems (Quintet)

Atai (Uzbeki, died 1044 AH/AD 1634)
1133 AH/AD 1721 (Ottoman)
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