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Collection Area Oriental Manuscripts Language Not applicable Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 5639.

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Add MS 5639.
Title:
Persian version of the Mahabharata translated by Naqib Khan and others, vol.2. One double-page and thirty-three single miniatures from Murshidabad c. 1780 bound in when in Sir Elijah Impey's collection.
Scope & Content:
Persian version of the Mahabharata translated by Naqib Khan and others, vol.2. One double-page and thirty-three single miniatures from Murshidabad c. 1780 bound in when in Sir Elijah Impey's collection.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1761-1780
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add MS 5660F, f.27

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Add MS 5660F, f.27
Title:
Invocation to Muhammad and 'Ali in the form of calligraphic horses, from a miscellany of which two folios are eighteenth century North Indian work.
Scope & Content:
Invocation to Muhammad and 'Ali in the form of calligraphic horses, from a miscellany of which two folios are eighteenth century North Indian work.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1700-1800
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add MS 5660F, f.28

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Add MS 5660F, f.28
Title:
Border drawings of huntsmen, animals and mythical beasts, from a miscellany of which two folios are eighteenth century North Indian work.
Scope & Content:
Border drawings of huntsmen, animals and mythical beasts, from a miscellany of which two folios are eighteenth century North Indian work.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1700-1800
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add MS 15504

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Add MS 15504
Title:
Copies of paintings inside a temple at Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, collected in the 1780s, contains copies of paintings inside a south Indian temple at Madurai named the 'Choukie Lingum'. It was commissioned by a British surgeon named David Simpson and the paintings were made by a local artist. Part A of Add.15504 contains 30 painted panels (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780s
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add MS 15959a

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Title:
Sketch-book containing 24 drawings made during Ozias Humphrey’s visit to Lucknow, Ramnagar, Mirzapur, Benares, and Allahabad in 1786.. Artist(s): Humphry, Ozias (1742-1810)
Scope & Content:
24 drawings (in a sketch book with several blank folios) made during his visit to Lucknow in 1786. Inscribed with titles and dates. Pen-and-ink, grey wash, pencil and water-colour; size of volume 211 x 158mm. 1. ‘From Mr. Gregory’ House at Lucknow looking across the Goomty. May 2nd 1786. From ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1786
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add MS 21475

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Add MS 21475
Title:
An album of 8 Maratha, Jaipur and Deccani paintings. The album was briefly noticed in Blumhardt’s 1899 catalogue of Hindi manuscripts, no. 91. The al ...
Scope & Content:
An album of 8 Maratha, Jaipur and Deccani paintings. The album was briefly noticed in Blumhardt’s 1899 catalogue of Hindi manuscripts, no. 91. The album contains eight paintings mostly from the Deccan, including five large paintings illustrating verses from Keshav Das’s classic text on poetics,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1680-1790
Extent:
8 items

7. DEL Or 10194

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DEL Or 10194
Title:
Poems by Hafiz, Sa'di, Rumi, Khvaju Kirmani and others. Judaeo-Persian script. Five miniatures.
Scope & Content:
Poems by Hafiz, Sa‘di, Rumi, Khvaju Kirmani and others. Judaeo-Persian script. Five miniatures. Qajar. Nineteenth century. Literature: Handlist, p.42. Titley no. 102. f.8b. Woman holding flowers. f.28b. Warrior. f.30b. Woman holding flowers (damaged). f.46b. ‘Darvish.’ f.69b. ‘Darvish.’
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1900
Extent:
1 Item

8. Or 4122

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Or 4122
Title:
Yusuf u Zulaikha by Jami. One double-page and twelve single miniatures. Borders with gold-painted designs.
Scope & Content:
‘Yusuf u Zulaikha’ by Jami. One double-page and twelve single miniatures. Borders with gold-painted designs. Shiraz/Safavid. ‘c.’ 1580. Literature: Rieu, Supp. p.189. Titley no. 214. f.1b. Sulaiman surrounded by angels and jinns, ‘simurghs,’ birds and animals. f.2a. Balkis surrounded by jinns...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1580
Extent:
1 Item

9. Or 4769-4770

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Or 4769-4770
Title:
TWO ALBUMS OF HINDU MYTHOLOGY Both albums bound in plain red morocco, each consisting of 32 album pages of card with pasted down miniatures surrounded ...
Scope & Content:
TWO ALBUMS OF HINDU MYTHOLOGY Both albums bound in plain red morocco, each consisting of 32 album pages of card with pasted down miniatures surrounded by decorative floral borders, blank versos. Albums rebound c.1870 with flyleaves of paper watermarked [Ho]’dgkinson & Co. 1868’ with Strasbo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1779-1781
Extent:
64 items

10. Or 4938

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Or 4938
Title:
Twenty-three portraits and various other sketches from a 19th century Persian album, many of them by Abu'l Hasan Ghaffari.
Scope & Content:
Twenty-three portraits and various other sketches from a 19th century Persian album, many of them by Abu’l Hasan Ghaffari. Qajar. Eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. Literature: Rieu, Supp. p.262. Titley no. 42. B. W. Robinson, ‘Persian Miniature Painting from Collections in the British Isles’,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1886
Extent:
1 Item