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1. Add MS 21475, f.4

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Title:
Krishna's open love in separation
Scope & Content:
Krishna’s ‘open’ love in separation (Rasikapriya 1, 27-28) - Nayaka ko prakasa biyoga sringara. Deccani, perhaps Aurangabad, 1720-30. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, 301 x 217 mm.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add MS 21475, f.5

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Title:
A youthful maiden unaware of her own flowering
Scope & Content:
A youthful maiden unaware of her own flowering - Ajnata yauvana. Deccani, perhaps Aurangabad, 1720-30. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, 336 x 257 mm.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add MS 21475, f.6

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Add MS 21475, f.6
Title:
Radha’s hidden meeting [with her lover] through hearing [his name]
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Radha’s hidden meeting [with her lover] through hearing [his name] (Rasikapriya 4, 15) - Nayaka ko prachanna sravana darsana, Deccani, perhaps Aurangabad, 1720-30. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, 331 x 246 mm.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add MS 21475, f.7

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Add MS 21475, f.7
Title:
Radha’s hidden meeting [with her lover] through a painting
Scope & Content:
Radha’s hidden meeting [with her lover] through a painting (Rasikapriya 4, 8) - Radha ko prachanna citra darsana,. Deccani, perhaps Aurangabad, 1720-30. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, 335 x 250 mm.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add MS 21475, f.8

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Title:
The plain speaking experienced heroine
Scope & Content:
The plain speaking experienced heroine (Rasikapriya 3, 48) - Madhya adhira nayika, Deccani, perhaps Aurangabad, 1720-30. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, 340 x 250 mm.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 21

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Add Or 21
Title:
Barbad the minstrel, invisible in a tree, playing music to Khusraw and his courtiers
Scope & Content:
Barbad the minstrel, invisible in a tree, playing music to Khusraw and his courtiers, two of whom offer cups of wine. The miniature is numbered '14' in the outer margin. 12.5 by 12 cm. (ex Monif Collection, New York). Purchased, July 1953. For other miniatures detached from the same manuscr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 23

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Title:
Majnun in the wilderness
Scope & Content:
Majnun in the wilderness. Oudh, c.1770-80. Purchased from Thakur J. Seesodia, November 1931. Gouache with gold; on an album leaf with a wide margin of carnations in gold on a plain background. 227 by 158 mm; page 477 by 315 mm. Reverse: a quatrain in praise of God, written in ‘nasta‘liq’ ca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1770-1780
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 210

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Title:
The murder of Siyawush
Scope & Content:
The murder of Siyawush. A trifle rubbed and discoloured. A variegated rocky landscape with the central group in the lower foreground; spectators in the upper part of the miniature have cast their crowns to the ground and make gestures of grief and dismay. 13 by 12 cm. (Sotheby's, 16.v.1955, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 2789

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Add Or 2789
Title:
Layla repulsing the advances of her husband Ibn Salam. Artist(s): Sadiq, style of
Scope & Content:
Miniature painting: Layla repulsing the advances of her husband Ibn Salam. The couple are seated on a carpet with stone balustrade behind; a maid brings a dish of refreshments. Foreground, grass with two glass decanters and a tumbler on a tray. Style of Sadiq. Late eighteenth century. 13 b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1775-1800
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 2829

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Add Or 2829
Title:
Laila and Majnun
Scope & Content:
Laila and Majnun. Inscribed beneath: ‘Leilee & Mujnoon.’ 159 by 94 mm; page 250 by 183 mm. Laila visits Majnun on a terrace. Her camel is on the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item