yusuf and zulaykha, walters art museum ms. w.647

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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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fol. 149b:Title: Joseph and Zulaykhā united in marriageForm: Illustration

fol. 157a:Title: Zulaykhā mourns the death of JosephForm: Illustration

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding The binding is not original.

Brown lacquer (no flap); decorated central and outer panels

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fol. 109a:Title: Zulaykhā in the company of Egyptian womenForm: Illustration

fol. 110b:Title: Zulaykhā asks Joseph to bring in a golden waterjar for her to wash her handsForm: Illustration

fol. 111b:Title: Joseph brings Zulaykhā a golden water jar to washher handsForm: Illustration

fol. 116b:Title: Zylaykhā tries to persuade her husband to sendJoseph to prisonForm: Illustration

fol. 118b:Title: Joseph is brought to prisonForm: Illustration

fol. 124b:Title: Zulaykhā visits Joseph in prisonForm: Illustration

fol. 132b:Title: Zulaykhā confesses to the king that Joseph isinnocentForm: Illustration

fol. 135a:Title: Joseph interprets the king’s dreamForm: Illustration

fol. 140b:Title: Zulaykhā, after the death of her husband, sitsalone in her abodeForm: Illustration

fol. 146a:Title: Zulaykhā entreats Joseph to pray to God to getback her sight and beautyForm: Illustration

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Form: Illustration

fol. 61b:Title: Joseph's brothers throw him into a wellForm: Illustration

fol. 68a:Title: Zulaykhā faints as she recognizes Joseph beingsold as a slaveForm: Illustration

fol. 80b:Title: Joseph employed by Zulaykhā as a shepherdForm: Illustration

fol. 91a:Title: Joseph in Zulaykhā’s garden among her maidsForm: Illustration

fol. 92b:Title: Zulaykhā’s maids approach Joseph for him tochoose one as a concubineForm: Illustration

fol. 96b:Title: Zulaykhā shows Joseph her newly built, seven-room palaceForm: Illustration

fol. 100b:Title: Zulaykhā, trying to prevent Joseph from leavingthe palace, grabs him by the collarForm: Illustration

fol. 103a:Title: Joseph, running after Zulaykhā, grabs and tearsher robeForm: Illustration

fol. 106b:Title: Zulaykhā shows her husband the torn piece ofJoseph’s collar as proof of his guiltForm: Illustration

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fol. 30b:Title: Zulaykhā dreams of Joseph the second time andthrows herself at his feetForm: Illustration

fol. 32a:Title: Zulaykhā has her legs chained by her maidsForm: Illustration

fol. 35a:Title: Zulaykhā dreams of Joseph the third time andlearns about his name and Egypt, where she thinks heis a vizierForm: Illustration

fol. 38a:Title: Zulaykhā in the company of her maidsForm: Illustration

fol. 36*b:Title: Zulaykha in front of her father, King TaymūsForm: Illustration

fol. 42b:Title: Zulaykhā is escorted to Egypt on a camel to marrythe vizierForm: Illustration

fol. 44b:Title: The vizier of Egypt waits in his pavilion for thearrival of ZulaykhāForm: Illumination

fol. 46a:Title: Zulaykhā peeks through a hole in her tent anddiscovers that the vizier is not JosephForm: Illustration

fol. 48a:Title: Zulaykhā and the vizier of EgyptForm: Illustration

fol. 55b:Title: Joseph, asleep beside Jacob, dreams of the sunand moon bowing to him

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i [?] ʿālījāh /2/ Badal Khānṣāḥib ḥasba al-amr bi-dastkhaṭṭ-iaḥqar al-ʿibād Muḥammad Mīrak ghafara Allāh ẕanbahu[?]bi-itmām rasīdah shud /3/Comment: Gives the date, place, name of scribe, and patron

Support material Paper

Laid paper, probably Kashmiri

Extent Foliation: ii+171+v

Collation Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Dimensions 10.5 cm wide by 16.0 cm high

Written surface 7.0 cm wide by 12.0 cm high

Layout Columns: 2Ruled lines: 12Framing lines in red, green, gold, and black

Contents fols. 1a - 170b:Title: Yūsuf va ZulaykhāText note: First ninety-six couplets and some versesmissing; a number of folios misboundHand note: Written in black Indian nastaʿlīq script withsection headings in redDecoration note: Thirty-four illustrations; framing linesin red, green, gold, and black

Decoration fol. 9a:Title: Seated portrait of Sultan HusseinForm: Illustration

fol. 16a:Title: Joseph, in the company of other prophets, in frontof AdamForm: Illustration

fol. 22b:Title: Zulaykhā dreams of Joseph holding a flowerForm: Illustration

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.647

Descriptive Title Yusuf and Zulaykha

Text title Yūsuf va ZulaykhāVernacular:

Author Authority name: Jami, 1414-1492As-written name: Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn AḥmadJāmīName, in vernacular:

Note: Copied on the order of Badal Khānṣāḥib (see fol.170b); author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 898 AH / 1492CE

Abstract This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of Yūsuf vaZulaykhā (Joseph and the Potiphar's wife) by Jāmī (d. 898AH / 1492 CE). According to the colophon, the text waswritten by Muḥammad Mīrak in Kashmir in 1190 AH /1776 CE on the order of Badal Khān Ṣāḥib (fol 170b).Incomplete at the beginning, the text is illustrated with thirty-four paintings.

Date Thursday 14 Ṣafar 1190 AH / 1776 CE, during the reign ofNavāb Amīr Khān

Origin Kashmir

Scribe As-written name: Muḥammad MīrakName, in vernacular:

Form Book

Genre Literary -- Poetry

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Colophon 170b:Transliteration: bi-tārīkh-i chahārdahum-i shahr-i Ṣafar al-muẓaffar sanah-i yakhazār va-yakṣad va-navad dar rūz-iPanjshanbah tārīkh-i [?] ṣadr /1/ bi-vaqt-i pīshīn dar bilād-iKashmīr jannat-naẓīr dar ʿahd-i Navāb Amīr Khān bi-jihat-

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.647, Yusuf and ZulaykhaTitle: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā

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

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