سبحة الابرار

Walters Ms. W.642, Poem (masnavi)

Walters Ms. W.642, Poem (masnavi)

Subḥat al-abrār

سبحة الابرار

Jāmī, 1414-1492 (author)

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

نور الدين عبد الرحمان بن احمد جامي (author)

Ḥaydar al-Ḥusaynī (scribe)

This is an illuminated copy of the well-known poem (mas̱navī) Subḥat al-abrār (The rosary of the righteous) by Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE), produced in Safavid Iran. The text, written in nastaʿlīq script, was copied by Ḥaydar al-Ḥusaynī in 965 AH / 1557-8 CE, according to the Arabic colophon (fol. 112a). The manuscript opens with an illuminated double-page incipit inscribed with the title of the work and the author's name. The subsequent pages have decorated borders and gold-sprinkled margins. The dark brown goatskin binding, which is original to the manuscript, has light brown doublures decorated with filigree work on a multi-colored ground. The original shelfmark of 3934 is inscribed on the tail edge of the codex. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W642/description.html

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

Double-page illuminated incipit; decorated borders and gold-sprinkled margins; polychrome section headings; framing lines in gold, blue, orange, black, and light green

fol. 2a Illuminated double-page incipit Incipit This is the left side of an illuminated double-page incipit. The top panel is inscribed with the author's name in white tawqīʿ/riqāʿ script on a gold background. The text area has interlinear gilt decoration with polychrome floral motifs. The illuminated borders are of a blue ground with gilt medallions and floral forms.

fol. 112a Colophon Colophon This colophon, written in Arabic, is dated 965 AH / 1557-8 CE and gives the name of the scribe as Ḥaydar al-Ḥusaynī. It reads as follows: katabahu al-ʿabd al-faqīr al-mudhnib al-muḥtāj ilá raḥmat Allāh /1/ wa-ghufrānih Ḥaydar al-Ḥusaynī ghaffara Allāh lahu wa-li-man qara<ʾ>ahu /2/ wa-naẓara fīhi sanat khams wa-sittīn wa-tasʿimi<ʾ>ah /3/

965 AH / 1557-8 CE

Seal erased; original shelfmark of 3934 on tail edge of codex

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

Arabic

paper

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1557

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