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Walters Ms. W.707, Single leaf of a falconer on horseback

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Shelf mark

W.707


Manuscript

Single leaf of a falconer on horseback


Text title
Falconer on horseback

Abstract

This is an Ottoman Turkish colored drawing of a falconer on horseback produced in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The central work is framed by two additional drawings: a lion in the upper register and a lion killing a deer in the lower register. Both reference earlier Persian compositions. The verses above are written in small nastaʿlīq script, the first two in Persian and the third in Ottoman Turkish. The border is of blue-tinted paper.


Date

11th century AH / 17th CE


Origin

Turkey


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928).


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

14.0 cm wide by 25.0 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 7.8 cm wide by 15.5 cm high

Contents:
fols. W.707a - W.707b:
  1. Title: Falconer on horseback
  2. Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink

Decoration:

fol. W.707a:

  1. W.707, fol. W.707a
  2. Title: Falconer on horseback
  3. Form: Drawing
  4. Label: This is an Ottoman Turkish colored drawing of a falconer on horseback produced in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The central work is framed by two additional drawings: a lion in the upper register and a lion killing a deer in the lower register. Both reference earlier Persian compositions. The verses above are written in small nastaʿlīq script, the first two in Persian and the third in Ottoman Turkish. The border is of blue-tinted paper.

fol. W.707b:

  1. W.707, fol. W.707b
  2. Title: Falconer on horseback (back)
  3. Form: Back

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.