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Source Description
While the texts of Walters manuscript W.581are written in Thuluth and Naskh scripts, the scribe used Tawqi" script to write the colophon, as was common in the Islamic manuscript tradition.The scribe signs himself as Ridwan ibn Muhammad al-Tabizi and indicates that the manuscript was copied in 767 AH/AD 1366.
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Document identity
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81126
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Colophon in Gold Tawqi‘ Script
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Source metadata
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81126
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object
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normalized
title
Colophon in Gold Tawqi‘ Script
description
While the texts of Walters manuscript W.581are written in Thuluth and Naskh scripts, the scribe used Tawqi" script to write the colophon, as was common in the Islamic manuscript tradition.The scribe signs himself as Ridwan ibn Muhammad al-Tabizi and indicates that the manuscript was copied in 767 AH/AD 1366.
provenance
Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library, Konya, Turkey (?), 767 AH/AD 1366 [mode of acquisition unknown] [bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-'Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah… (fol.1a)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
767 AH/AD 1366
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CC0
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
folios (leaves)
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1
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1
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dimensions
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cm
width
27
height
18
dimensionsRaw
H: 10 5/8 x W: 7 1/16 in. (27 x 18 cm)
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Islamic
inscriptions
[Transliteration] katabahā al-faqīru ilá Allāhi al-ghanī /1/ Ridwānu ibn Muhammadin al-Tabrīzīyu fī /2/ Jumādá al-ākhir min sanati sab'in wa-sittīna /3/ wa-sab'imi'atin hāmidan li-Llāh ta'ālá /4/ 'alá ni'amih al-sābighah wa-musalliyan /5/ 'alá nabīyih Muhammadin wa-ālihi wa-sahbihi musalliman /6/
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ink and pigments on laid paper with chain lines grouped in twos
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16854
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1
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photo
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