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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This single leaf of a battle scene comes from an illustrated Bāburnāmah (Memoirs of Babur) executed in Mughal India during the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The text, written in black nastaʿlīq script, comes from a description of the events of the year 901 AH / 1495-6 CE. It describes how Sayyidim, Qulī Bābā, and several warriors were unhorsed in battle and how news of their fate reached Sultan Ḥusayn Mīrzā (d. 911 AH / 1506 CE). The polychrome borders surrounding this page date to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Two lines written in 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
Thackston, W. M. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1996), 70.
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
Late 10th century AH / 16th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
India
Late 10th century AH / 16th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This single leaf of a battle scene comes from an illustrated Bāburnāmah (Memoirs of Babur) executed in Mughal India during the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The text, written in black nastaʿlīq script, comes from a description of the events of the year 901 AH / 1495-6 CE. It describes how Sayyidim, Qulī Bābā, and several warriors were unhorsed in battle and how news of their fate reached Sultan Ḥusayn Mīrzā (d. 911 AH / 1506 CE). The polychrome borders surrounding this page date to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Two lines written in 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
Thackston, W. M. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1996), 70.
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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