Five Poems (Quintet)

1059 AH/AD 1649 (Safavid; Qajar)

17 cm 29.5 cm

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Walters manuscript W.611 is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the Khamsah (quintet) by Nizami Ganjavi (died 605 AH/AD 1209), written in 1059 AH/AD 1649 by Shams al-Din Kirmani. The codex opens with an illuminated titlepiece inscribed hadha kitab Khamsah-'i Mawlana Shaykh-...

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Ibrahim [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; [partly visible seal impression dated [1]230 (?) AH on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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