تیمورنامۀ هاتفی

Walters Ms. W.648, Epic of Timur

Walters Ms. W.648, Epic of Timur

Tīmūrnāmah-i Hātifī

تيمورنامه هاتفى

Hātifī, d. 1520 or 1 (author)

ʿAbd Allāh Hātifī (author)

عبد الله هاتفي (author)

Pīr ʿAlī al-Jāmī (scribe)

This is a Safavid illuminated and illustrated copy of the History of Timur (Tamerlane) (r. 706 AH / 1370 CE -- 807 AH / 1405 CE), known as Tīmūrnāmah or Ẓafarnāmah, composed by ʿAbd Allāh Hātifī (d. 927 AH / 1520 CE) and written in imitation of Niẓāmī’s Iskandarnāmah. It was copied by Pīr ʿAlī al-Jāmī in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 4b-5a) and is illustrated with two paintings (fols. 37a and 75b). One painting depicts Timur at court and the other portrays Timur defeating the Khan of the Kipchaqs. The green leather binding with inner boards lined with ikat textile is attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W648/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Two illustrations; double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 4b-5a)

fol. 4b Double-page illuminated frontispiece Frontispiece; incipit This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece, introducing the text.

fol. 5a Double-page illuminated frontispiece Frontispiece; incipit This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece, introducing the text.

fol. 37a A court scene with Timur and his maiden from Khwarezm Illustration

fol. 75b Timur defeating the Khan of the Kipchaqs Illustration

10th century AH / 16th CE

Seal impression: al-ʿabd Yār …[?] ibn Aq Muḥammad, dated 1019 AH / 1610-11 CE (fol. 166a)

Date: Rajab 1269 AH / 1853 CE (fol. 4a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

paper

image/jpeg

1501

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