Five Poems (Quintet)

923-924 AH/AD 1517-1518

17 cm 29.5 cm

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Walters manuscript W.606 is an illuminated and illustrated Khamsah (quintet) by Nizami Ganjavi (died 605 AH/AD 1209), copied by Muhammad Musá al-Mudhahhib ('the Limner') in Safavid Iran in 924 AH/AD 1518. The manuscript opens with a double-page illustration (fols. 1b-2a), whic...

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