Author
Nizami Ganjavi (Azerbaijani, died 605 AH/AD 1209), Abu Bakr Shah ibn Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Shahrastani, Jamal al-Din Muhammad al-Siddiqi al-Isfahani
Publication Date
892 AH/AD 1486-900 AH/AD 1494-1495 (Safavid)
Publication Place
Iran (Place of Origin) -
Subject
Manuscripts and Rare Books, Islamic World, Islamic Manuscripts
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
Folio H: 9 1/16 x W: 6 5/16 in. (23 x 16 cm)
Library
The Walters Art Museum
Record ID
W.605
Library Location
Not on view
Date
892 AH/AD 1486-900 AH/AD 1494-1495 (Safavid)
Notes
This copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Nizami Ganjavi (died 605 AH/AD 1209), Walters manuscript W.605, was written by Abu Bakr Shah ibn Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Shahrastani and illuminated by Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Siddiqi al-Isfahani between 892 AH/AD 1486 and 900 AH/AD 1494-1495. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece with an inscription giving the title of the work and the name of the author (fols. 1b-2a). There are 4illuminated titlepieces with the names of the individual poems and 26 repainted illustrations. According to evidence supplied by the colophons, the original binding was by the hand of Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Siddiqi al-Isfahani, as well. Unfortunately, it has not survived. The binding presently attached to the manuscript dates to the 12th century AH/AD 18th.
Sergi Ayrıntıları
From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore., The Divine Word and Sacred Sites of Islam. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
Sergi Yılı
2014-2016, 1997
Bağış/Edinim
Acquired by Henry Walters
