Description
This folio from Walters manuscript W.561 contains an illuminated titlepiece in a rectangular panel. The titlepiece is inscribed al-juz' al-thani min al-rab'ah al-sharifah on a blue background with gold arabesques. Below is a bequest (waqf) statement in the name of the Mamluk Amir Aytimish (also Aytmish) [al-Bajasi] (died 802 AH/AD 1400) for the library of the Madrasah (later known as al-Madrasah al-Aytimishiyah), which he established at Cairo's Bab al-Wazir.
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