Binding from Five Poems (Quintet)

1271 AH/AD 1854

16.5 cm 27 cm

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This non-original binding from Walters manuscript W.622 is composed of lacquer boards (without a flap). The binding depicts hunting scenes with a gazelle and a bear and has an inscription on the lower board, dated 1271 AH/AD 1854, reading: ya Shah Najaf (oh, King of Najaf, i....

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Muhammad 'Ali Shirazi ibn […] Muhammad Qasim Shirazi, 1250 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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