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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof 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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Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris:Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 232-4.

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Form: BindingLabel: The inner boards of this green leather binding arelined with ikat textile. It is attributable to the thirteenthcentury AH / nineteenth CE.

fol. 4b:Title: Double-page illuminated frontispieceForm: Frontispiece; incipitLabel: This is the right side of a double-pageilluminated frontispiece, introducing the text.

fol. 5a:Title: Double-page illuminated frontispieceForm: Frontispiece; incipitLabel: This is the left side of a double-page illuminatedfrontispiece, introducing the text.

fol. 37a:Title: A court scene with Timur and his maiden fromKhwarezmForm: Illustration

fol. 75b:Title: Timur defeating the Khan of the KipchaqsForm: Illustration

Provenance Seal impression: al-ʿabd Yār …[?] ibn Aq Muḥammad, dated1019 AH / 1610-11 CE (fol. 166a)

Date: Rajab 1269 AH / 1853 CE (fol. 4a)

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding The binding is not original.

Attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE;green leather (no flap); blind-stamped central oval andpendants; inner boards lined with ikat textile

Bibliography Simsar, Muhammed Ahmed. Oriental Manuscripts of theJohn Frederick Lewis Collection in the Free Library ofPhiladelphia: A Descriptive Catalogue with Forty-eightIllustrations. (Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia,1937), no. 43.

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Colophon 166a:Transliteration: katabahu al-ʿabd Pīr ʿ Alī al-Jāmī /1/ tajawāzaAllāh ʿanhu /2/Comment: In Arabic, giving the name of the scribe only

Support material Paper

Laid paper

Extent Foliation: ii+166+iTwo sets of earlier foliations in Hindu-Arabic numerals, onein black and one in red

Collation Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Dimensions 14.0 cm wide by 23.5 cm high

Written surface 7.5 cm wide by 16.0 cm high

Layout Columns: 2Ruled lines: 15

Contents fols. 1b - 166a:Title: Tīmūrnāmah-i HātifīIncipit:

Text note: Main text preceded by a table of contents(fihrist) by a later hand (fols. 1b-2b), which gives thetitle of the chapter, the page number, and part of the firstverseHand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink withcaptions in gold and redDecoration note: Two illustrations; double-pageilluminated frontispiece (fols. 4b-5a)

Decoration Upper board outside:Title: BindingForm: BindingLabel: This green leather binding is attributable to thethirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.

Upper board inside:Title: Upper board inside

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.648

Descriptive Title Epic of Timur

Text title Tīmūrnāmah-i HātifīVernacular:

Note: Also known as Ẓafarnāmah-i Hātifī

Author Authority name: Hātifī, d. 1520 or 1As-written name: ʿAbd Allāh HātifīName, in vernacular:

Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 927 AH / 1520CE

Abstract This is a Safavid illuminated and illustrated copy of theHistory of Timur (Tamerlane) (r. 706 AH / 1370 CE -- 807AH / 1405 CE), known as Tīmūrnāmah or Ẓafarnāmah,composed by ʿAbd Allāh Hātifī (d. 927 AH / 1520 CE)and written in imitation of Niẓāmī’s Iskandarnāmah. It wascopied by Pīr ʿ Alī al-Jāmī in the tenth century AH / sixteenthCE. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminatedfrontispiece (fols. 4b-5a) and is illustrated with two paintings(fols. 37a and 75b). One painting depicts Timur at court andthe other portrays Timur defeating the Khan of the Kipchaqs.The green leather binding with inner boards lined with ikattextile is attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenthCE.

Date 10th century AH / 16th CE

Origin Iran

Scribe As-written name: Pīr ʿAlī al-JāmīName, in vernacular:

Form Book

Genre Historical

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2011

A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.648, Epic of TimurTitle: Tīmūrnāmah-i Hātifī

Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

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