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- Title:
- Walters Ms. W.663, Five poems (quintet)
- Author:
- Alisher Navoiĭ, 1441-1501, ʿAlī Šīr Nevāʾī, علي شير نوائي, Mir Ali Šir, and No author name given.
- Format:
- Manuscript/Archive
- Language:
- Turkish
- Abstract:
- This is a Safavid illuminated and illustrated collection of the Ḫamse (quintet), written in Çaġatāy (eastern Turkic), composed by the celebrated ʿAlī Šīr Nevāʾī (d. 906 AH / 1501 CE), and inspired by the Persian Khamse of Niẓāmī and Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī. This copy dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE and has five double-page illustrations in the early Safavid court style. Each double-page illustration introduces the following individual poems: Kitāb-i ḫeyrāt ül-ebrār (fols. 1b-2a), Kitāb-i Ferhād va Şīrīn (fols. 45b-46a), Kitāb-i Mecnūn va Leylā (fols. 108b-109a), Kitāb-i Heşt bihişt (fols. 147b-148a), and Kitāb-i Iskendernāme (fols. 199b-200a). Each poem is also introduced by an illuminated incipit (fols. 2b, 46b, 109b, 148b, and 200b). The brown goatskin binding has a central lobed oval with pendants and cornerpieces brushed with gold. It is possibly attributable to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE.
For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W663/description.html
- Date:
- 1501
- Repository:
- Walters Art Museum