Five Poems (Quintet)

935 AH/AD 1529 (Safavid)

16.5 cm 27 cm

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Walters manuscript W.622 is an illustrated and illuminated Safavid copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (died 725 AH/AD 1325), written by Pir Husayn al-Katib al-Shirazi in 935 AH/AD 1529. The codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece with verses...

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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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