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 illustration is from a Mughal manuscript copy of Anvār-i Suhaylī (The lights of Canopus), a collection of fables by Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī (d. 910 AH / 1504-5 CE). It dates to the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE or early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The text narrates the fate of a man who, escaping from a wild camel, jumps into a well. There his predicament grows even more precarious when he lands on the heads of four snakes, grasps in desperation at a bush gnawed by two rats, and looks down to see dragon waiting to devour him should he fall.
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
Grube, Ernst J. A Mirror for Princes from India: Illustrated Versions of the Kalilah wa Dimnah, Anvar-i Suhayli, Iyar-i danish, and Humayun nameh. (Bombay: Marg Publications, 1991), 67.
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
Early 11th century AH / 17th CE
leaf
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
India
Early 11th century AH / 17th CE
leaf
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This illustration is from a Mughal manuscript copy of Anvār-i Suhaylī (The lights of Canopus), a collection of fables by Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī (d. 910 AH / 1504-5 CE). It dates to the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE or early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The text narrates the fate of a man who, escaping from a wild camel, jumps into a well. There his predicament grows even more precarious when he lands on the heads of four snakes, grasps in desperation at a bush gnawed by two rats, and looks down to see dragon waiting to devour him should he fall.
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
Grube, Ernst J. A Mirror for Princes from India: Illustrated Versions of the Kalilah wa Dimnah, Anvar-i Suhayli, Iyar-i danish, and Humayun nameh. (Bombay: Marg Publications, 1991), 67.
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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