Incipit with Illuminated Titlepiece

971 AH/AD 1563 (Safavid; Qajar)

17.1 cm 24.1 cm

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This incipit page from Walters manuscript W.608 has an illuminated titlepiece introducing the Sharafnamah, the 1st part of the 5th poem of the Khamsah, Iskandarnamah. 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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