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| Keywords: Amir Khusraw Dihlavi - Three Collections of Poetry - Walters W657 - Top Exterior.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Amir Khusrow Walters manuscript W 657 is an illustrated and illuminated composite volume of three poetic texts the Khamsah quintet of Nizami Ganjavi died 605 AH/AD 1209 the Khamsah quintet of Amir Khusraw Dihlavi died 725 AH/AD 1325 and the Timurnamah Epic of Timur by 'Abd Allah Hatifi died 927 AH/AD 1520 also known as the Zafarnamah The texts are written in black Naskh script with titles section headings and incidentals in white or red Tawqi'/Riqa' script It was produced in the 10th century AH/AD 16th in either India or Safavid Iran The binding is not original to the manuscript According to a note on front flyleaf iia the codex was re-bound and restored by a bookbinder of Tabriz Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabrizi in 1295 AH/AD1878 century 16 AD Safavid ink pigments laid paper ink and pigments on tinted laid paper cream for text area and rose or light brown for margins covered with red leather with gold Folio cm 28 19 accession number W 657 9940 Mundir date and mode of acquisition unknown seal impression with motton on fol 280b Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabrizi Tabriz 1295 AH/AD 1878 mode of acquisition unknown note regarding re-binding and restoration of this volume by the bookbinder on front flyleaf iia Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin India Walters Art Museum license 2D Nizami and Amir Khusraw Poems Walters MS 657 Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
