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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an album (muraqqaʿ) of Persian and Indian calligraphy and paintings, most probably compiled in the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. The album contains thirty-four illustrations, three of which are attributed to the Mughal painter Abū al-Ḥasan (Nādir al-al-Zamān), two to Manūhar, and one each to Dawlat and Ṣādiqī. There are several portraits of rulers and courtiers, as well as scenes from historical manuscripts, such as Bāburnāmah and Gulistān by Saʿdī. This album is also significant for the number of works by the artist Shayk Abbāsī, who worked in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The signed calligraphic pieces bear the names of ʿImād al-Ḥasanī (d. 1024 AH / 1615 CE), ʿAlī Riz̤ā-ʾi ʿAbbāsī, Mīr ʿAlī, and ʿAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī (d. 1081 AH / 1670-1 CE). The album was initially in an accordion format and was later made into a codex. The lacquer binding with central ovals and pendants decorated with flowers dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in calligraphic nastaʿlīq script with some folios in shikastah script; signed calligraphy by ʿImād al-Ḥasanī (Mīr ʿImād) (fols. 2b, 3a, 27a, 30b, 42b, 46b, 47a, 51a, 74b, and 75a), ʿAlī Riz̤ā-ʾi ʿAbbāsī (fols. 12b and 13a), Mīr ʿAlī (fols. 6b, 7a, and 50b), and ʿAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī (fols. 20b, 38b, 39a, and 55a)
artist: Abū al-Ḥasan Nādir al-al-Zamān
artist: Manūhar
artist: Ṣādiqī
artist: Dawlat
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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
Farhad, Massumeh. "Safavid Single-Page Paintings 1629-1666." (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1987), 204-216.
Beach, Milo Cleveland. "The Mughal Painter Abu'l Hasan and some English Sources for his Style." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 38 (1980): 6-33.
Ettinghausen, Richard. Paintings of the Sultans and Emperors of India in American Collections. (New Delhi: Lalit Kalā Akademi, 1961), 37, pl. 11.
Hubbard, I. "ʿAlī Riẓā-i ʿAbbāsī, Calligrapher and Painter." Ars Islamica 4 (1937): 282-91.
Smart, Ellen S. "Yet Another Illustrated Akbari Baburnama Manuscript." In Facets of Indian Art. Robert Skelton. (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986), 105-115.
Beach, Milo, Eberhard Fischer, and B. N. Goswamy. Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1650. Artibus Asiae Supplementum 48, vol. 1., 2011.
Bailey, Gauvin. "Supplement: The Sins of Sadiqi’s Old Age." In Persian Painting from the Mongols to the Qajars. Robert Hillenbrand. (London, I. B. Tauris, 2000), 264-265.
See also "Abu’l-Ḥasan Nāder-al-Zamān," "ʿAlī-Reżā Abbāsī," "ʿEmād Ḥasanī, Mīr, ʿEmad-al-Molk," "Šayk Abbāsī," and "ʿAbd-al-Rašīd Daylamī." Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v.
Skelton, Robert. "Ghiyath al-Din 'Ali-yi Naqshband and an Episode in the Life of Sadiqi Beg." In Persian Painting from the Mongols to the Qajars. Robert Hillenbrand. (London: I. B. Tauris, 2000), 249-263.
Gahlin, Sven. The Courts of India: Indian Miniatures from the Collection of the Fondation Custodia, Paris. Paris: Fondation Custodia; Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders Publishers, 1991.
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.
Iran or India
Late 10th century AH / 16th CE -- 13th century AH / 19th CE
album
Non-original Binding
Probably thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE; lacquer boards (no flap); central ovals and pendants decorated with flowers
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Seal impression: ʿAbduh Khudādād, 1189 AH / 1775 CE
Seal impression: Farhād, 1234 AH / 1800 CE
Inscriptions in Russian and Persian, 1237 AH / 1821 CE
Seal impression: Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī
Seal impression: Fatḥ ʿAlī
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran or India
Late 10th century AH / 16th CE -- 13th century AH / 19th CE
album
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Seal impression: ʿAbduh Khudādād, 1189 AH / 1775 CE
Seal impression: Farhād, 1234 AH / 1800 CE
Inscriptions in Russian and Persian, 1237 AH / 1821 CE
Seal impression: Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī
Seal impression: Fatḥ ʿAlī
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an album (muraqqaʿ) of Persian and Indian calligraphy and paintings, most probably compiled in the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. The album contains thirty-four illustrations, three of which are attributed to the Mughal painter Abū al-Ḥasan (Nādir al-al-Zamān), two to Manūhar, and one each to Dawlat and Ṣādiqī. There are several portraits of rulers and courtiers, as well as scenes from historical manuscripts, such as Bāburnāmah and Gulistān by Saʿdī. This album is also significant for the number of works by the artist Shayk Abbāsī, who worked in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The signed calligraphic pieces bear the names of ʿImād al-Ḥasanī (d. 1024 AH / 1615 CE), ʿAlī Riz̤ā-ʾi ʿAbbāsī, Mīr ʿAlī, and ʿAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī (d. 1081 AH / 1670-1 CE). The album was initially in an accordion format and was later made into a codex. The lacquer binding with central ovals and pendants decorated with flowers dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in calligraphic nastaʿlīq script with some folios in shikastah script; signed calligraphy by ʿImād al-Ḥasanī (Mīr ʿImād) (fols. 2b, 3a, 27a, 30b, 42b, 46b, 47a, 51a, 74b, and 75a), ʿAlī Riz̤ā-ʾi ʿAbbāsī (fols. 12b and 13a), Mīr ʿAlī (fols. 6b, 7a, and 50b), and ʿAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī (fols. 20b, 38b, 39a, and 55a)
artist: Abū al-Ḥasan Nādir al-al-Zamān
artist: Manūhar
artist: Ṣādiqī
artist: Dawlat
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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
Farhad, Massumeh. "Safavid Single-Page Paintings 1629-1666." (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1987), 204-216.
Beach, Milo Cleveland. "The Mughal Painter Abu'l Hasan and some English Sources for his Style." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 38 (1980): 6-33.
Ettinghausen, Richard. Paintings of the Sultans and Emperors of India in American Collections. (New Delhi: Lalit Kalā Akademi, 1961), 37, pl. 11.
Hubbard, I. "ʿAlī Riẓā-i ʿAbbāsī, Calligrapher and Painter." Ars Islamica 4 (1937): 282-91.
Smart, Ellen S. "Yet Another Illustrated Akbari Baburnama Manuscript." In Facets of Indian Art. Robert Skelton. (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986), 105-115.
Beach, Milo, Eberhard Fischer, and B. N. Goswamy. Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1650. Artibus Asiae Supplementum 48, vol. 1., 2011.
Bailey, Gauvin. "Supplement: The Sins of Sadiqi’s Old Age." In Persian Painting from the Mongols to the Qajars. Robert Hillenbrand. (London, I. B. Tauris, 2000), 264-265.
See also "Abu’l-Ḥasan Nāder-al-Zamān," "ʿAlī-Reżā Abbāsī," "ʿEmād Ḥasanī, Mīr, ʿEmad-al-Molk," "Šayk Abbāsī," and "ʿAbd-al-Rašīd Daylamī." Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v.
Skelton, Robert. "Ghiyath al-Din 'Ali-yi Naqshband and an Episode in the Life of Sadiqi Beg." In Persian Painting from the Mongols to the Qajars. Robert Hillenbrand. (London: I. B. Tauris, 2000), 249-263.
Gahlin, Sven. The Courts of India: Indian Miniatures from the Collection of the Fondation Custodia, Paris. Paris: Fondation Custodia; Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders Publishers, 1991.
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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