Walters Ms. W.673, Album of Persian calligraphyMuraqqaʿمرقع<note type="title" xml:id="n302.251957">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 illuminated album (muraqqaʿ) in accordion format containing Persian calligraphy. It was executed in Iran during the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. Lines of text in black nastaʿlīq script are framed by decorative cloud-bands. Borders are decorated with illuminated vegetal and animal motifs on multicolored paper. This album bears a seal impression of the Ottoman Sultan ʿUthmān Khān (Osman III, r. 1167 AH / 1754 CE -- 1170 AH / 1757 CE) and a bequest (waqf) entry and seal by Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf, inspector of awqāf (fol. 1b). The dark brown leather binding with central oval and pendants is contemporary with the manuscript but may not be original to it.BaltimoreThe Walters Art MuseumW.673The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.fols. 1b - 8aMuraqqaʿمرقع<note type="title" xml:id="n302.252004">Title supplied by cataloger</note>ندانم چه كفتند اعيا ر از من...Fragmentary Persian verses

Multicolored paper mounted on pasteboard

Foliation: 825.014.08.55.5Written and decorated on one side of the leaf onlyLines framed in rectangular compartmentsWritten in large nastaʿlīq script in black inkIlluminated headpiece with the doxological formula (basmalah) (fol. 1b); illuminated cloud-bands surrounding verses; borders decorated with vegetal and animal motifs on multicolored paperDoublureBindingThis doublure is made of light brown leather and has a central oval and pendants decorated with filigree work.Incipit page with illuminated headpieceIncipit; headpiece; sealThis incipit page has an illuminated headpiece with the doxological formula (basmalah), which reads, "in the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate." The whole is set within borders decorated with animal and vegetal motifs. In the left margin is the seal of the Ottoman Sultan Osman III (r. 1167 AH / 1754 CE -- 1170 AH / 1757 CE) with the superscript old shelf mark 5012 and (below the seal) a bequest (waqf) entry and seal by Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf, inspector of awqāf.

Dark brown leather with central oval and pendants; doublures of light brown leather with filigree work

11th century AH / 17th CEIranSeal of Sultan ʿUthmān Khān ibn Muṣṭafá Khān and a bequest (waqf) entry and seal by Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf, inspector of awqāf, and the shelfmark 5012 (fol. 1b)Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequestArtMedicineMuseumPoetryScriptMuhammad, the ProphetKashmiriHorsesWalters Art MuseumBlockbookDocumentGeneologyAstrologyDevotionHistoryLegalLiterature -- PoetryLiterature -- ProseLiturgyPhilosophyScienceScience -- MedicineScriptureSufismTheologyMineralogyLogicGeographyGeomancyCosmologyCartographyFortune-tellingKoranQur`anFirmanPalimpsestPrayerBibleGospelsPsalterMissalLectionaryBook of HoursAntiphonaryPrayerbookHomilaryProcessionalHorologionBreviaryHymnalChroniclePsalter/HoursMaghrebSub-Saharan (West) AfricaTurkeyAfghanistanCentral Arab Lands (Near East)Central AsiaEgyptEnglandIndiaIranIraqPakistanGermanyFranceAustriaNetherlandsEthiopiaArmeniaFlandersGreeceMamlukMughalOttomanOttonianArmenianByzantineAbbasidQajarRajputChristianArabicAustrianDutchEgyptianFatimidGermanIndianIslamicPersianSafavidTimuridTurkishUmayyadEnglishFrenchFlemishEthiopianCarolingianCalligraphyChartsColophonHeadpieceIlluminationIllustrationMedallionMiniatureOrnamentPainting'Kufic'Early Abbasid scriptRaginiRomanesqueGothicWatermarkTreasure BindingGrotesquesHistoriated initialInhabited initialCarolingian MinusculeGothic Book handWhite-vine letteringEnglish secretaryTexturaBatardaHumanisticUncialAccordion bookAlbumBookCodexManuscriptHeraldrySaint's LifeDrawingGrisailleOriginal BindingBindingNew Abbasid stylecharter8th Century9th Century10th Century11th Century12th Century13th Century14th Century15th Century16th Century17th Century18th Century19th Century20th CenturyMusical notationRussiaRomaniaLiturgicalDevotionalScripturalTheologicalLegalHistoricalScientificScientific -- MedicalLiterary -- ProseLiterary -- PoetryPhilosophicalAstrologicalSufiEnglishCalligraphyIlluminationIranIslamicManuscriptPersianWalters Art MuseumAccordion bookAlbumLiterature -- Poetry