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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2009
The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland
21201http://www.thewalters.org/
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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages inorder, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front”for a Western manuscript.
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Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Binding The binding is not original.
Lacquer boards with floral design (no flap)
Bibliography Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: A Bio-BibliographicalSurvey, Vol. 2. (London: Luzac, 1927- ), 438-495.
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fol. 328a:Title: An official weighs the precious stone Alexanderthe Great found in the darknessForm: IllustrationText: Sharafnāmah
fol. 329a:Title: A man tells Alexander the Great a story of acountry in which there is no deathForm: IllustrationText: Sharafnāmah
fol. 331b:Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpieceForm: Incipit; headpieceText: IqbālnāmahLabel: This incipit page has an illuminated headpiecebeginning Iqbālnāmah, the second half of the fifth poemof the Khamsah: Iskandarnāmah.
fol. 339a:Title: Alexander the Great listens to a story about aprince whose wife was sickForm: IllustrationText: Iqbālnāmah
fol. 343b:Title: A rich merchant is summoned before a Greek kingand his prime ministerForm: IllustrationText: Iqbālnāmah
fol. 345b:Title: Hermes, in front of Alexander the Great, and theGreek scholars who disagreed with himForm: IllustrationText: Iqbālnāmah
fol. 374b:Title: The funeral procession of Alexander the GreatForm: IllustrationText: Iqbālnāmah
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fol. 259a:Title: Alexander the Great fights the EthiopiansForm: IllustrationText: Sharafnāmah
fol. 268a:Title: An official reads a letter to Alexander the Great,sent to him by DariusForm: IllustrationText: Sharafnāmah
fol. 288b:Title: Nushābah entertained by Alexander the GreatForm: IllustrationText: Sharafnāmah
fol. 292a:Title: Alexander the Great, unable to destroy a fortress,consults a hermitForm: IllustrationText: Sharafnāmah
fol. 296a:Title: Alexander the Great at a cave where Kay Khusrawis buried that emits flamesForm: IllustrationText: Sharafnāmah
fol. 301b:Title: Alexander the Great hunts on his way to ChinaForm: IllustrationText: Sharafnāmah
fol. 307b:Title: Alexander the Great meets the king of ChinaForm: IllustrationText: Sharafnāmah
fol. 320b:Title: Alexander the Great defeats the Russian armyForm: Illustration
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Form: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 212b:Title: Bahrām Gūr in the green pavilionForm: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 215a:Title: Bahrām Gūr in the red pavilionForm: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 221a:Title: Bahrām Gūr in the sandalwood pavilionForm: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 226a:Title: Bahrām Gūr in the white pavilionForm: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 232a:Title: Bahrām Gūr meets a shepherd who hung his dogon a treeForm: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 236a:Title: The hanging of Bahrām Gūr’s unjust vizierForm: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 240b:Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpieceForm: Incipit; headpieceText: SharafnāmahLabel: This incipit page has an illuminated headpiecebeginning Sharafnāmah, the first half of the fifth poemof the Khamsah: Iskandarnāmah.
fol. 253a:Title: Alexander the Great enthroned
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Form: IllustrationText: Khusraw va Shīrīn
fol. 117b:Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpieceForm: Incipit; headpieceText: Laylá va MajnūnLabel: This incipit page has an illuminated headpiecebeginning the third poem of the Khamsah: Laylá vaMajnūn.
fol. 160b:Title: Laylá and Majnūn meet in the wildernessForm: IllustrationText: Laylá va Majnūn
fol. 176b:Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpieceForm: Incipit; headpieceText: Haft paykarLabel: This incipit page has an illuminated headpiecebeginning the fourth poem of the Khamsah: Haftpaykar.
fol. 186b:Title: Nuʿmān, father of Bahrām Gūr, throws a builderfrom the roof of the palace KhavarnaqForm: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 195b:Title: Bahrām Gūr kills a wild ass while Fitnah playsthe harpForm: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 202a:Title: Bahrām Gūr entertains Shīdah, the builder of theseven pavilionsForm: IllustrationText: Haft paykar
fol. 209a:Title: Bahrām Gūr in the yellow pavilion
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Form: IllustrationText: Khusraw va Shīrīn
fol. 48a:Title: Khusraw watching Shīrīn bathingForm: IllustrationText: Khusraw va Shīrīn
fol. 57a:Title: Khusraw kills a lion in the presence of ShīrīnForm: IllustrationText: Khusraw va Shīrīn
fol. 72b:Title: Farhād is summoned to dig a channel through arocky mountainForm: IllustrationText: Khusraw va Shīrīn
fol. 79b:Title: Farhād carries Shīrīn and her dead horse on hisshouldersForm: IllustrationText: Khusraw va Shīrīn
fol. 89b:Title: Courtiers at Khusraw’s palaceForm: IllustrationText: Khusraw va Shīrīn
fol. 98b:Title: A woman offers wine to KhusrawForm: IllustrationText: Khusraw va Shīrīn
fol. 109b:Title: Shīrūyah kills his father, Khusraw, because of hislove for ShīrīnForm: IllustrationText: Khusraw va Shīrīn
fol. 110b:Title: Shīrīn commits suicide after the murder ofKhusraw
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Contents fols. 1b - 380a:Title: Khamsah-i NiẓāmīIncipit:
Text note: Contains: Makhzan al-asrār (fols. 1b-31b);Khusraw va Shīrīn (fols. 32b-117a); Laylá va Majnūn(fols. 117b-176a); Haft paykar (fols. 176b-240a);and Iskandarnāmah, divided into Sharafnāmah (fols.240b-331a) and Iqbālnāmah (fols. 331b-380a); title ofeach poem not indicated; some folios supplied laterHand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script with chapterheadings in redDecoration note: Thirty-six illustrations; double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a); headpieceswithout inscriptions; framing lines in blue, red, gold,and black
Decoration fol. 1b:Title: Double-page illuminated frontispieceForm: FrontispieceText: Makhzan al-asrārLabel: This is the right side of a double-pageilluminated frontispiece that begins the first poem of theKhamsah, Makhzan al-asrār.
fol. 23b:Title: Two quarreling scholarsForm: IllustrationText: Makhzan al-asrār
fol. 32b:Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpieceForm: Incipit; headpieceText: Khusraw va ShīrīnLabel: This incipit page has an illuminated headpiecebeginning the second poem of the Khamsah: Khusrawva Shīrīn.
fol. 40b:Title: Khusraw before his father, Hurmuz, asking forforgiveness
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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.612
Descriptive Title Five poems (quintet)
Text title Khamsah-i NiẓāmīVernacular:
Author Authority name: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3Supplied name: Ilyās ibn Yūsuf Niẓāmī GanjavīName, in vernacular:
Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 605 AH / 1209CE
Abstract This illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the Khamsah(quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) dates tothe eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The codex openswith a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a).Each of the five poems begins with an illuminated headpiece(fols. 32b, 117b, 176b, 240b, 331b), and there are thirty-six illustrations. The lacquer binding is not original to themanuscript.
Date 11th century AH / 17th CE
Origin Iran
Form Book
Genre Literary -- Poetry
Language The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Extent Foliation: i+380
Collation Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos
Dimensions 16.5 cm wide by 27.0 cm high
Written surface 10.5 cm wide by 19.5 cm high
Layout Columns: 4Ruled lines: 20Framing lines in blue, red, gold, and black
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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
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A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.612, Five poems (quintet)Title: Khamsah-i Niẓāmī
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