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Walters Ms. W.651, Poems (tarji'band)

Walters Ms. W.651, Poems (tarji'band)

Tarjīʿbandhā

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Jāmī, 1414-1492 (author)

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Jāmī (author)

نور الدين عبد الرحمان بن احمد جامي (author)

Muḥammad Zamān al-Tabrīzī (scribe)

This is an illuminated and illustrated manuscript of a small collection of short love poems of the type called tarjī`band by Nūr al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). It was copied in black nasta‘līq script by the calligrapher Muḥammad Zamān al-Tabrīzī in 998 AH / 1589-90 CE in Safavid Iran. The text is written on orange-tinted paper, and the bluish-green borders are illuminated throughout. The manuscript opens with an incipit page with illuminated headpiece (fol. 1b), and there are two illustrations (fols. 3a and 6a). The Qajar lacquer binding is decorated with floral motifs and is inscribed with verses attributed to Imām ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib. An ownership statement is present, and dated 1311 AH / 1893-4 CE, stating that this precious book was bought for his son, Maḥmūd Askānī, from a woman for 10 ashrafis (gold dinars) (fol. 6b). For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W651/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.

Two illustrations; incipit page with illuminated headpiece; illuminated contour panels and rectangular and triangular pieces in the text area; illuminated borders with animal, plant, and bird motifs

fol. 1b Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Incipit; headpiece This incipit page with illuminated headpiece has a bluish-green border decorated with floral and fauna motifs.

fol. 2a Illuminated text page Text page This text page is written in nasta‘līq script on orange-tinted paper by the calligrapher Muḥammad Zamān al-Tabrīzī in 998 AH / 1589-90 CE in Safavid Iran. The bluish-green borders are illuminated in an early Safavid style.

fol. 3a A garden scene with three men Illustration In a garden, three men gather and exchange poetic verses.

fol. 6a A landscape scene with a young man and an old man Illustration; colophon In this landscape scene, a young man holding a sheet of paper containing a verse and an older man are seated next to a tree. The older man may be intended to represent the poet Jāmī.

998 AH / 1589-90 CE

Ownership statement written by Ḥusayn Qavām Daftar (?) and dated 1311 AH / 1893-4, stating that this precious book was bought for his son, Maḥmūd Askānī, from a woman for 10 ashrafis (gold dinars) (fol. 6b)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

Arabic

paper

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