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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an album (muraqqaʿ) compiled in the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE, or possibly later. It contains nineteen Deccani paintings and four pages of shikastah calligraphy (fols. 3b, 7b, 8a, and 9b), one of which is dated 1211 AH / 1796 CE (fol. 3b). The paintings, which date to the late twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE or thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE, come from a ragmala series attributable to the Deccan. A ragmala is a visualization of a musical mode or melody. This album contains a mix of visualizations of ragas (male musical modes) and raginis (female musical modes considered to be the wives of the male musical modes). The codex was formerly in an accordion format, and the multicolor flexible cloth hinges on the leaves are still visible. It was later rebound in a brown goatskin binding with a central lobed oval.
Written in shikastah calligraphy (fols. 3b, 7b, 8a, and 9b)
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
Gude, Tushara Bindu. "Between Music and History: Ragamala Paintings and European Collectors in Late Eighteenth-Century Northern India." PhD diss., University of California Los Angeles, 2009.
Pal, Pratapaditya. Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967.
Ebeling, Klaus. Ragamala Painting. Basel: Ravi Kumar, 1973.
Dahmen-Dallapiccola, Anna Libera. Ragamala-Miniaturen von 1475 bis 1700. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1975.
Waldschmidt, Ernst, and Rose Leonore Waldschmidt. Miniatures of Musical Inspiration in the Collection of the Berlin Museum of Indian Art, vol. 2. Berlin: Museum fur Indische Kunst, 1975.
Falk, Toby, and Mildred Archer. Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library. London; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981.
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.
India (Deccan)
Late 12th century AH / 18th CE -- 13th century AH / 19th CE
album
Non-original Binding
Light brown leather (no flap); green onlaid central oval
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
India (Deccan)
Late 12th century AH / 18th CE -- 13th century AH / 19th CE
album
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an album (muraqqaʿ) compiled in the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE, or possibly later. It contains nineteen Deccani paintings and four pages of shikastah calligraphy (fols. 3b, 7b, 8a, and 9b), one of which is dated 1211 AH / 1796 CE (fol. 3b). The paintings, which date to the late twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE or thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE, come from a ragmala series attributable to the Deccan. A ragmala is a visualization of a musical mode or melody. This album contains a mix of visualizations of ragas (male musical modes) and raginis (female musical modes considered to be the wives of the male musical modes). The codex was formerly in an accordion format, and the multicolor flexible cloth hinges on the leaves are still visible. It was later rebound in a brown goatskin binding with a central lobed oval.
Written in shikastah calligraphy (fols. 3b, 7b, 8a, and 9b)
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
Gude, Tushara Bindu. "Between Music and History: Ragamala Paintings and European Collectors in Late Eighteenth-Century Northern India." PhD diss., University of California Los Angeles, 2009.
Pal, Pratapaditya. Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967.
Ebeling, Klaus. Ragamala Painting. Basel: Ravi Kumar, 1973.
Dahmen-Dallapiccola, Anna Libera. Ragamala-Miniaturen von 1475 bis 1700. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1975.
Waldschmidt, Ernst, and Rose Leonore Waldschmidt. Miniatures of Musical Inspiration in the Collection of the Berlin Museum of Indian Art, vol. 2. Berlin: Museum fur Indische Kunst, 1975.
Falk, Toby, and Mildred Archer. Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library. London; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981.
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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