Illuminated Incipit Page with Headpiece

6th century AH/AD 12th century

15 cm 16 cm

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This illuminated incipit page from Walters manuscript W.556 has a headpiece with an inscription in an Early Abbasid (Kufic) script that is now illegible due to damage. The headpiece is of geometric design in gold, white, and blue with a palmette medallion in the margin. The pa...

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