Yusuf and Zulaykha, Walters Art Museum MS. W.647

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fol. 149b: Title: Joseph and ZulaykhÄ united in marriage Form: Illustration fol. 157a: Title: ZulaykhÄ mourns the death of Joseph Form: 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 women Form: Illustration fol. 110b: Title: Zulaykhā asks Joseph to bring in a golden water jar for her to wash her hands Form: Illustration fol. 111b: Title: Joseph brings Zulaykhā a golden water jar to wash her hands Form: Illustration fol. 116b: Title: Zylaykhā tries to persuade her husband to send Joseph to prison Form: Illustration fol. 118b: Title: Joseph is brought to prison Form: Illustration fol. 124b: Title: Zulaykhā visits Joseph in prison Form: Illustration fol. 132b: Title: Zulaykhā confesses to the king that Joseph is innocent Form: Illustration fol. 135a: Title: Joseph interprets the king’s dream Form: Illustration fol. 140b: Title: Zulaykhā, after the death of her husband, sits alone in her abode Form: Illustration fol. 146a: Title: Zulaykhā entreats Joseph to pray to God to get back her sight and beauty Form: Illustration

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Form: Illustration fol. 61b: Title: Joseph's brothers throw him into a well Form: Illustration fol. 68a: Title: Zulaykhā faints as she recognizes Joseph being sold as a slave Form: Illustration fol. 80b: Title: Joseph employed by Zulaykhā as a shepherd Form: Illustration fol. 91a: Title: Joseph in Zulaykhā’s garden among her maids Form: Illustration fol. 92b: Title: Zulaykhā’s maids approach Joseph for him to choose one as a concubine Form: Illustration fol. 96b: Title: Zulaykhā shows Joseph her newly built, sevenroom palace Form: Illustration fol. 100b: Title: Zulaykhā, trying to prevent Joseph from leaving the palace, grabs him by the collar Form: Illustration fol. 103a: Title: Joseph, running after Zulaykhā, grabs and tears her robe Form: Illustration fol. 106b: Title: Zulaykhā shows her husband the torn piece of Joseph’s collar as proof of his guilt Form: Illustration

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fol. 30b: Title: Zulaykhā dreams of Joseph the second time and throws herself at his feet Form: Illustration fol. 32a: Title: Zulaykhā has her legs chained by her maids Form: Illustration fol. 35a: Title: Zulaykhā dreams of Joseph the third time and learns about his name and Egypt, where she thinks he is a vizier Form: Illustration fol. 38a: Title: Zulaykhā in the company of her maids Form: Illustration fol. 36*b: Title: Zulaykha in front of her father, King Taymūs Form: Illustration fol. 42b: Title: Zulaykhā is escorted to Egypt on a camel to marry the vizier Form: Illustration fol. 44b: Title: The vizier of Egypt waits in his pavilion for the arrival of Zulaykhā Form: Illumination fol. 46a: Title: Zulaykhā peeks through a hole in her tent and discovers that the vizier is not Joseph Form: Illustration fol. 48a: Title: Zulaykhā and the vizier of Egypt Form: Illustration fol. 55b: Title: Joseph, asleep beside Jacob, dreams of the sun and moon bowing to him

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i [?] ʿālījāh /2/ Badal Khānṣāḥib ḥasba al-amr bi-dastkhaṭṭ-i aḥqar 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: 2 Ruled lines: 12 Framing lines in red, green, gold, and black

Contents

fols. 1a - 170b: Title: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā Text note: First ninety-six couplets and some verses missing; a number of folios misbound Hand note: Written in black Indian nastaʿlīq script with section headings in red Decoration note: Thirty-four illustrations; framing lines in red, green, gold, and black

Decoration

fol. 9a: Title: Seated portrait of Sultan Hussein Form: Illustration fol. 16a: Title: Joseph, in the company of other prophets, in front of Adam Form: Illustration fol. 22b: Title: Zulaykhā dreams of Joseph holding a flower Form: Illustration

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Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.647

Descriptive Title

Yusuf and Zulaykha

Text title

Yūsuf va Zulaykhā Vernacular:

Author

Authority name: Jāmī, 1414-1492 As-written name: Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Jāmī Name, in vernacular: Note: Copied on the order of Badal Khānṣāḥib (see fol.

170b); author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 898 AH / 1492 CE

Abstract

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 thirtyfour paintings.

Date

Thursday 14 Ṣafar 1190 AH / 1776 CE, during the reign of Navāb Amīr Khān

Origin

Kashmir

Scribe

As-written name: Muḥammad Mīrak Name, 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 almuẓaffar sanah-i yakhazār va-yakṣad va-navad dar rūz-i Panjshanbah tārīkh-i [?] ṣadr /1/ bi-vaqt-i pīshīn dar bilād-i Kashmīr jannat-naẓīr dar ʿahd-i Navāb Amīr Khān bi-jihat-

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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized 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 at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.647, Yusuf and Zulaykha Title: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā

Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

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