yusuf and zulaykha, walters art museum ms. w.647
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This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā (Joseph and the Potiphar's wife) by Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). According to the colophon, the text was written 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.TRANSCRIPT
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2009
The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland
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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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