The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an illuminated and illustrated Mughal copy of a collection of poems (dīvān) by the eminent poet and hagiographer of Islamic India, Ḥasan Dihlavī (d. ca. 729 AH / 1328 CE). It was written in nastaʿlīq script by ʿAbd Allāh Mushkīn Qalam (Amber-Scented Pen) in Allāhābād in 1011 AH / 1602 CE, according to the colophon on fol. 187a. A celebrated royal calligrapher, Abd Allāh Mushkīn Qalam worked in Allāhābād for Prince Salim, who later became the Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a) and is illustrated with fourteen paintings, including a portrait of the calligrapher himself (fol. 187a). The lacquer binding has intricate all-over illumination in which the main element is a pattern of gold strapwork with floral motifs, attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth century CE.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Beach, Milo Cleveland. The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660. (Williamstown, Mass: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978), 34.
Das, Asok Kumar. Splendour of Mughal Painting. (Bombay: Vakils, Feffer, and Simons, 1986), 24, pl. III.
Losty, Jeremiah P. The Art of the Book in India. (London: British Library, 1982), 94.
Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 282-3.
Seyller, John. "The Walters Art Museum Diwan of Amir Hasan Dihlawi and Salim's Atelier at Allahbad." in Arts of Mughal India: Studies in Honour of Robert Skelton (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004), 95-110.
Ettinghausen, Richard. Paintings of the Sultans and Emperors of India in American Collections. (New Delhi: Lalit Kalā Akademi, 1961), pl. 8.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Allāhābād, India
27 Muḥarram 1011 AH / 1602 CE (see fol. 187a, illustration)
book
Non-original Binding
Attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE; lacquer boards (no flap); geometrical and floral design in the main panel
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Allāhābād, India
27 Muḥarram 1011 AH / 1602 CE (see fol. 187a, illustration)
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illuminated and illustrated Mughal copy of a collection of poems (dīvān) by the eminent poet and hagiographer of Islamic India, Ḥasan Dihlavī (d. ca. 729 AH / 1328 CE). It was written in nastaʿlīq script by ʿAbd Allāh Mushkīn Qalam (Amber-Scented Pen) in Allāhābād in 1011 AH / 1602 CE, according to the colophon on fol. 187a. A celebrated royal calligrapher, Abd Allāh Mushkīn Qalam worked in Allāhābād for Prince Salim, who later became the Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a) and is illustrated with fourteen paintings, including a portrait of the calligrapher himself (fol. 187a). The lacquer binding has intricate all-over illumination in which the main element is a pattern of gold strapwork with floral motifs, attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth century CE.
Written in black nastaʿlīq script
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Beach, Milo Cleveland. The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660. (Williamstown, Mass: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978), 34.
Das, Asok Kumar. Splendour of Mughal Painting. (Bombay: Vakils, Feffer, and Simons, 1986), 24, pl. III.
Losty, Jeremiah P. The Art of the Book in India. (London: British Library, 1982), 94.
Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 282-3.
Seyller, John. "The Walters Art Museum Diwan of Amir Hasan Dihlawi and Salim's Atelier at Allahbad." in Arts of Mughal India: Studies in Honour of Robert Skelton (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004), 95-110.
Ettinghausen, Richard. Paintings of the Sultans and Emperors of India in American Collections. (New Delhi: Lalit Kalā Akademi, 1961), pl. 8.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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