منتخب جامی

Walters Ms. W.641, Selection of poems

Walters Ms. W.641, Selection of poems

Muntakhab-i Jāmī

منتخب جامي

Jāmī, 1414-1492 (author)

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

نور الدين عبد الرحمان بن احمد جامى (author)

Sulṭān ʿAlī (scribe)

This manuscript is an illuminated Timurid copy of a selection of poems by Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). The colophon indicates that it was copied in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) by Sulṭān ʿAlī in 899 AH / 1493-4 CE (fol. 70b). The manuscript opens with an illuminated incipit with an inscribed headpiece. The black leather binding, which is original to the manuscript, has a stamped central lobed oval, pendants, and cornerpieces, which are all covered with cloudband motifs.The doublures of red leather with similar design are decorated with filigree work on a blue ground. There is an erased bequest (waqf) seal and registration statement, probably belonging to the Sultan ʿUthmān (reg. 1027-31 AH / 1618-22 CE) (fol. 1a). For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W641/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Illuminated headpiece inscribed Allāh wa-lā siwāhu in New Abbasid (broken cursive) style (fol. 1b); headings and incidentals in red, gold, and blue; framing lines in gold, black, and blue

fol. 1b Illuminated incipit with headpiece Incipit; headpiece This illuminated headpiece is inscribed Allāh wa-lā siwāhu in gold in the New Abbasid (broken cursive) style on a deep blue background. Incidentals are written in gold.

fol. 70b Illuminated colophon Colophon In this colophon the scribe Sulṭān ‘Alī indicates that the manuscript was completed in 899 AH / 1493-4 CE in the city of Herat, which is in present day Afghanistan. It reads as follows: qad faragha min taswīd h<ā>dh<ā> al-kitāb bi-ʿawn al-malik al-wahhāb aqall al-ʿibād /1/ Sulṭān ʿAlī tajāwaza Allāh ʿan sayyiā<ʾ>ātih fī shuhūr /2/ sanat tisʿ wa-tisʿīn wa-thamānimi<ʾ>ah /3/ bi-baldat Harāt /4/ m [=tamma] /5/

899 AH / 1493-4 CE

Name of scribe, date, and place of copying given in colophon (fol. 70b)

Erased bequest (waqf) seal and registration statement, probably belonging to Sultan ʿUthmān (reg. 1027-31 AH / 1618-22 CE) (fol. 1a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

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