Illuminated Colophon to the Collection of Poems (masnavi)

865 AH/AD 1461

16 cm 24.5 cm

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According to this colophon written in Arabic from Walters manuscript W.625, the manuscript was completed in 865 AH/AD 1461 by Ahmad ibn Hajji Abi Bakr al-Katib. It reads as follows: tamma al-kitabu al-Mathnawi al-ma'nawi al-mawlawi wa-al-hamd li-Llah ta'alá wa-husn tawfiqih /1...

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