Author
Yadkar al-Katib, Nizami Ganjavi (Azerbaijani, died 605 AH/AD 1209)
Publication Date
934-935 AH/AD 1528-1529 (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: 11 13/16 x W: 7 1/16 in. (30 x 18 cm)
Library
The Walters Art Museum
Record ID
W.607
Library Location
Not on view
Date
934-935 AH/AD 1528-1529 (Safavid)
Notes
Walters manuscript W.607 is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of 4 of the 5 poems that comprise the Khamsah (quintet) of Nizami Ganjavi (died 605 AH/AD 1209). It does not include Laylá va Majnun. The text was copied in black Nasta'liq script by Yadkar the Calligrapher (al-Katib) in 935 AH/AD 1529. An illuminated double-page frontispiece opens the codex (fols. 1b-2a), and each poem is introduced with an illuminated headpiece (fols. 33b, 119b, 180b, and 261b). The 27 illustrations appear to have been repainted in India during the 12th or early 13th century AH/AD 18th or early 19th. The manuscript is bound in late Zand lacquer boards with figural scenes depicting Bahram Gur hunting and Khusraw watching Shirin bathing. The upper board illustrating Bahram Gur is dated 12[0]5 AH/AD 1790-1791.
Sergi Ayrıntıları
The Divine Word and Sacred Sites of Islam. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
Sergi Yılı
1997
Bağış/Edinim
Acquired by Henry Walters
