Walters Ms. W.654, Anthology of Persian poetryMuntakhabāt-i ashʿārمنتخبات اشعار<note type="title" xml:id="n321.072528">Title supplied by cataloger</note>Principal catalogerGacek, AdamCatalogerLandau, AmyCatalogerSmith, SitaEditorBockrath, DianeContributorBarrera, ChristinaContributorEmery, DougContributorHerbert, LynleyContributorNoel, WilliamContributorSimpson, ShreveContributorTabritha, ArielContributorToth, Michael B.ContributorValle, ChiaraConservatorJewell, StephanieConservatorQuandt, AbigailThe Walters Art Museum

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This is an anthology in fragmentary form of Persian poetry with such names as Banāʾī, Qudsī, Nīkī, Ḥayratī, Humayūn, Faṣīḥī, Qāyimī, and Kamāl mentioned in the text. It was written in nastaʿlīq script on tinted and marbled paper probably in the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. The three illustrations are in an archaizing early Safavid style and may have been painted in Iran or India. The binding is not original to the manuscript.BaltimoreThe Walters Art MuseumW.654The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.fols. 1b - 14bMuntakhabāt-i ashʿārمنتخبات اشعار<note type="title" xml:id="n321.072575">Title supplied by cataloger</note>Incomplete at beginning and end; fols. 2 and 3 should be before fol. 1; fol. 4 continues on fol. 1a; missing text between fols. 2b-5a, 6b-7a, 7b-8a, 10b-11a, and 12b-13a.

Certain leaves tinted for the body of the text; tinted and marbled margins

Foliation: iii+14+iii22.514.513.07.0

Written obliquely on versos

Verses within a frame, in compartments, written horizontally and obliquely; framing lines in blue, black, green, and brownWritten in nastaʿlīq script in blackThree illustrations; framing lines in blue, black, green, and brownA falcon hunting sceneIllustrationReading poetry in a landscapeIllustrationA man kissing his beloved’s footIllustration

Red leather in dentelle style; supplied later from another codex (boards are larger than the textblock)

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