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.
These two Mughal paintings are originally from a copy of the Akbarnāmah, the official history of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 964-1015 AH / 1556-1605 CE), written by Abū al-Faẓl ibn Mubārak (d. 1011 AH / 1602 CE). The manuscript from which the two paintings derive is divided largely between the British Library (Or. MS 2988) and the Chester Beatty Library (Ms. 3). This illustrated historical manuscript has been dated between the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE to the initial years of the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The two Walters paintings are pasted over the central text panel of a page from Farhang-i Jahāngīrī, an imperial Persian language dictionary by Jamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Injū Shīrāzī (d. 1035 AH /1625 or 6 CE). This was done in the early twentieth century by the French dealer Demotte.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with lemmata in red
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
For Akbarnāmah see Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 1. (London: Luzac, 1927- ), 543-549.
For Farhang-i Jahāngīrī see Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 3. (London: Luzac, 1927- ), 26-29.
Welch, S. C., "Early Mughal Miniature Paintings from Two Private Collections Shown at the Fogg Art Museum." Ars Orientalis 3 (1959): fig. 12.
Binney, E. Indian Miniature Painting from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd. The Mughal and Deccani Schools (Portland: Portland Art Museum, 1973), no. 20.
Beach, Milo Cleveland, Stuart Cary Welch, and Glen D. Lowry. The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660 (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978), 41-43; nos. 3-4.
Beach, Milo Cleveland. The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1981), 102-103; 116-123; nos. 12a-c, e-f.
Leach, Linda York. Mughal and Other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, Vol. 1. (London: 1995), 232-300.
Schmitz, Barbara J. Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the Pierpoint Morgan Library. (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1997), 151-152.
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
End of the 10th century AH / 16th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
India
End of the 10th century AH / 16th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
These two Mughal paintings are originally from a copy of the Akbarnāmah, the official history of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 964-1015 AH / 1556-1605 CE), written by Abū al-Faẓl ibn Mubārak (d. 1011 AH / 1602 CE). The manuscript from which the two paintings derive is divided largely between the British Library (Or. MS 2988) and the Chester Beatty Library (Ms. 3). This illustrated historical manuscript has been dated between the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE to the initial years of the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The two Walters paintings are pasted over the central text panel of a page from Farhang-i Jahāngīrī, an imperial Persian language dictionary by Jamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Injū Shīrāzī (d. 1035 AH /1625 or 6 CE). This was done in the early twentieth century by the French dealer Demotte.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with lemmata in red
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
For Akbarnāmah see Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 1. (London: Luzac, 1927- ), 543-549.
For Farhang-i Jahāngīrī see Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 3. (London: Luzac, 1927- ), 26-29.
Welch, S. C., "Early Mughal Miniature Paintings from Two Private Collections Shown at the Fogg Art Museum." Ars Orientalis 3 (1959): fig. 12.
Binney, E. Indian Miniature Painting from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd. The Mughal and Deccani Schools (Portland: Portland Art Museum, 1973), no. 20.
Beach, Milo Cleveland, Stuart Cary Welch, and Glen D. Lowry. The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660 (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978), 41-43; nos. 3-4.
Beach, Milo Cleveland. The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1981), 102-103; 116-123; nos. 12a-c, e-f.
Leach, Linda York. Mughal and Other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, Vol. 1. (London: 1995), 232-300.
Schmitz, Barbara J. Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the Pierpoint Morgan Library. (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1997), 151-152.
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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