Keywords: Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana - Illuminated Colophon to the Collection of Poems (masnavi) - Walters W625311A - Full Page.jpg en According to this colophon written in Arabic from Walters manuscript W 625 the manuscript was completed in 865 AH/AD 1461 by Ahmad ibn Hajji Abi Bakr al-Katib It reads as follows tamma al-kitabu al-Mathnawi al-ma'nawi al-mawlawi wa-al-hamd li-Llah ta'al� wa-husn tawfiqih /1/ wa-al-sal<a>h wa-al-salam wa-la-tahiyah wa-al-ikramu 'al� khayr khalqih Muhammad wa-alih wa-sahbih /2/ ajma'in al-tayyibin al-tahirin wa-sallama tasliman /3/ 'al� yad ad'af 'ibad Allah ta'al� /4/ wa-ahwajihim il� 'afwih wa-ghufranih /5/ Ahmad ibn Hajji Abi Bakr al-Katib 'afa Allah /6/ 'anhuma fi hijjah sic khams wa-sittin wa-thamanimi'ah /7/ Allahumma ighfir li-sahibih wa-li-katibih /8/ wa-li-qari'ih wa-li-jami' al-mu'minin /9/ wa-al-mu'minat /10/ m tamma /11/ islamic 1461 865 ink and pigments on buff-colored laid paper cm 24 5 16 accession number W 625 311A 80048 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Transliteration place of origin Iran Walters Art Museum license 2D Manuscript by Rumi Walters MS 626 Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review |