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1. 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

2. 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

3. Add MS 49352(13)

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Add MS 49352(13)
Title:
At lessons. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of a Japanese child practising calligraphy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 49352(88)

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Add MS 49352(88)
Title:
[Japanese calligraphy lesson.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait group, showing children practising calligraphy under the eye of their teacher.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 49352(131)

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Add MS 49352(131)
Title:
[Japanese women practising calligraphy.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of two seated women. The figure on the left is in the act of writing a scroll. Her companion holds a fan with calligraphic decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

6. Add Or 2542

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Add Or 2542
Title:
(unillustrated text page from the Bhagavata Purana)
Scope & Content:
Numbered.’f.122’: an unillustrated text page.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 2775

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Add Or 2775
Title:
A page of calligraphy, two lines of Dakhni Urdu in naskhi script, a verse from Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah’s Kitab-i Nauras, signed Jug.
Scope & Content:
A page of calligraphy, two lines of Dakhni Urdu in naskhi script, a verse from Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah’s ‘Kitab-i Nauras’, signed ‘Jug’. Inscribed on reverse in nasta‘liq: ‘‘abd al-latif’, and: ‘This is the writing of Ibrahim Jugudguroo. This was purchased from the grandson of Mohamed Ali Moonshee ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 2869

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Add Or 2869
Title:
Panel of nasta'liq Persian calligraphy in decoupe work, with a decoupe border.
Scope & Content:
Panel of decoupé work, with ‘nasta’liq’ Persian text in central cartouche and in end panels cut out in white paper over a ground coloured blue and gold, with a border of decoupé floral scroll over olive green. Let into a later plain album page. Inscribed on reverse in an 18th century hand: ‘A ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1600
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 3129, f.2

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Add Or 3129, f.2
Title:
Gold formal landscape with animals. Dara Shikoh's dedicatory inscription to Nadira Banu Begum.
Scope & Content:
Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds, lynxes, foxes and lions; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1630-40. Executed in gold, with an inscription (‘see above)’ which has been obliterated in gold; the gold has subsequently worn away, particularly over the black ink o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 3129, f.2v

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Add Or 3129, f.2v
Title:
Right hand half of a double page illuminated heading with fine floral and arabesque decoration.
Scope & Content:
The right-hand half of a double page illuminated heading with fine floral and arabesque decoration in colours and gold. Mughal, c.1610-30. The seven lines of ‘nasta‘liq,’ an extract from a manual of Sufism, have been set with interlinear floral illumination in a different ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1610-1630
Extent:
1 Item