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Walters Ms. W.688, Single leaf of youths before a ruler at his court

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Shelf mark

W.688


Manuscript

Single leaf of youths before a ruler at his court


Text title
Youths before a ruler at his court

Abstract

This manuscript illustration of a group of youths before a king and his courtiers was executed in Iran during the early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. Stylistically it relates to manuscript production in Shiraz in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE and early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The painting is framed by illuminated borders in tones of gold. The back of the leaf has additional illumination and no text.


Date

Early 11th century AH / 17th CE


Origin

Iran


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable


Support material

Paper

Thin paper; full-page gold illumination on the back


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

24.0 cm wide by 39.0 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 15.5 cm wide by 26.2 cm high

Contents:
fols. W.688a - W.688b:
  1. Title: Youths before a ruler at his court
  2. Decoration note: Border illuminated with floral designs and birds

Decoration:

fol. W.688a:

  1. W.688, fol. W.688a
  2. Title: Youths before a ruler at his court
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Label: This manuscript illustration of a group of youths before a king and his courtiers was executed in Iran during the early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. Stylistically it relates to manuscript production in Shiraz in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE and early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The painting is framed by illuminated borders in tones of gold. The back of the leaf has additional illumination and no text.

fol. W.688b:

  1. W.688, fol. W.688b
  2. Title: Youths before a ruler at his court (back)
  3. Form: Illumination; back
  4. Label: The framing lines in green, orange, blue, and black suggest that this illuminated page was originally intended for illustration or text.

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.