Illuminated Preface to the Third Book of the Collection of Poems (masnavi)

865 AH/AD 1461

16 cm 24.5 cm

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This folio from Walters manuscript W.625 is the left side of a double-page illuminated preface, written in Arabic, to the third book (daftar) of the Collection of poems (Masnavi-i ma'navi). The text is written in gold Tawqi script. The text area is framed by a border of gilt a...

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