Keywords: Amir Khusraw Dihlavi - Incipit with Illuminated Titlepiece - Walters W6571B - Full Page.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Amir Khusrow This illuminated titlepiece from Walters manuscript W 657 is inscribed in white Tawqi'/Riqa' script Makhzan al-asrar-i Shaykh-i Nizami 'alayhi al-rahmah Three small triangular pieces at the beginning of the text introduce Matla' al-anwar the first poem of the Khamsah of Dihlavi There is one cornerpiece with floral design 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 cm 28 19 accession number W 657 1B 83287 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 |