Label:Walters Ms. W.653, Anthology of Persian poetry
Title:Walters Ms. W.653, Anthology of Persian poetry, Muntakhabāt-i ashʿār, منتخبات اشعار
Description:This illuminated and illustrated anthology was compiled in 1105 AH / 1693 CE in Safavid Iran. The manuscript includes works by such poets as Jāmī, Azārī, Fayz̤ī, Navāʾī, and Saʿdī. The margins of colored and marbled paper are decorated with stenciled, illuminated, and painted motifs, including an angel, a young man reading a book, a youth pouring wine, and various animals. There are five paintings in the codex (fols. 8b, 16b, 17a, 19b, and 24b). The green leather binding is not original to the codex and probably dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W653/description.html, The primary language in this manuscript is Persian., Illustrations; colored margins decorated with stenciled, painted, and illuminated designs; framing lines in orange, gold, blue, purple, and black, fol. 8b Man seated in a landscape Illustration A corpulent man sits in a stylized landscape dressed in the Safavid style. The salmon pink margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms. The catchword at the lower left indicates that the following folio is missing., fol. 16b Woman holding a vase of flowers in a landscape Illustration A middle-aged woman stands in a landscape, holding a vase of flowers. The salmon pink margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms. The catchword at the lower left indicates that the following folio is missing., fol. 17a Seated man reading from a book of Persian poetry Illustration A young man sits in a landscape reading a book of Persian poetry in the oblong format. The peach margins are decorated with another young man reading, another pouring wine, and an angel., fol. 19b Young man standing with pomegranate and book Illustration A young man stands in a landscape with a pomegranate in his right hand and a closed book close to his cheek in his left hand. The cream and marbled margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms., fol. 24b Young man playing flute with singing bird perched in a blossoming tree Illustration Seated in a stylized landscape, a youth plays the flute while looking up at a singing bird perched in a tree. The buff-colored margins are decorated with a man reading a book, a youth pouring wine, and an angel., fol. 32a Illuminated colophon with two goats in combat Colophon; marginal decoration This colophon appears to have been partially erased, with only the following clearly legible: fī shar-i Muḥarram al-ḥarām 115 (in the month of holy Muḥarram 1105 AH / 1693 CE)., Muḥarram 1105 AH / 1693 CE, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Language:Persian
Format:paper, image/jpeg
Date:1693
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