Incipit with Illuminated Titlepiece

922 AH/AD 1516 (Safavid)

17.5 cm 29 cm

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This incipit page from Walters manuscript W.609 has an illuminated titlepiece introducing the 2nd poem of the Khamsah, Khusraw va Shirin, which is written in white on a blue ground.

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Muhammad Asharf ibn Muhammad Khatam al-Husayni, 1173 AH/AD 1759-1760 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fols. 1a and 401a]; Husayn …[?], 1308 AH/AD 1890-1891 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement on fol. 1b]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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