Incipit with Illuminated Titlepiece

971 AH/AD 1563 (Safavid; Qajar)

17 cm 24 cm

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This incipit page from Walters manuscript W.608 has an illuminated titlepiece introducing the 3rd poem of the Khamsah, Laylá va Majnun. It is inscribed in white on a gold ground with polychrome floral decoration.

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Baqi Pasha [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership note fol. 1a]; 'Ali Riza ibn Mustafá, 1180 AH/AD 1766-1777 [mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership note with seal fol. 2a]; 'Ali Mawla 'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression fols. 153a, 177a, 233a, 351a]; Sahibi umm [mother of Mirza Ibrahim] [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership note fol. 351b]; Shah Vardi Ghulam Shah Mardan [date and mode of acquisition unknown [seal impression fol. 349]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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