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21. Add Or 5317

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5317
Title:
Nala-Damayanti The King Nala and his wife Damayanti in exile.. Artist(s): Calcutta Art Studio (fl.1890s)
Scope & Content:
‘Naladamayanti’ [Bengali and Hindi] Nala Damayanti. [Added caption missing: ‘ 51. Nala-Damayanti The King Nala and his wife Damayanti in exile.’]
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 Item

22. Add Or 5318

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5318
Title:
Savitri Savitri praying for her husband’s life to Yama.. Artist(s): Calcutta Art Studio (fl.1890s)
Scope & Content:
‘Savitri’ [Bengali, Hindi and English]. [Added caption:] ‘52. Savitri Savitri praying for her husband’s life to Yama.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 Item

23. Add Or 5319

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5319
Title:
Vishmer Sara-Sajya Vishma lying on the bed of arrows in the battle-field of Kurukshetra.. Artist(s): Calcutta Art Studio (fl.1890s)
Scope & Content:
‘Bhishmer sarasajya’ [Bengali]. [Added caption:] ‘53. Vishmer Sara-Sajya Vishma lying on the bed of arrows in the battle-field of Kurukshetra.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 Item

24. Add Or 5326

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5326
Title:
Sorojini (Dramatic) Sorojini mounting the funeral pile after the incasion of Chittore.. Artist(s): Calcutta Art Studio (fl.1890s)
Scope & Content:
‘Sorojini’ [Bengali, Hindi and English. With Bengali quotation from drama]. [Added caption:] ‘60. Sorojini (Dramatic) Sorojini mounting the funeral pile after the invasion of Chittore.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 Item

25. Add Or 5576

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5576
Title:
Page from a dispersed Rasamanjari depicting the heroine Anusayana 2.
Scope & Content:
A page from a ‘Rasamañjari’, showing the second Anuśāyanā heroine, who is sad on account of the hot weather putting an end to her normal trysting place with her lover in a charming grove full of young leaves and birds and peacocks. Her friend advises her to meet her lover in his house instead. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1620-1625
Extent:
1 Item

26. Add Or 5634

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5634
Title:
The stubborn heroine. Artist(s): Sahib Din (fl.1628-53)
Scope & Content:
The stubborn heroine. By the Mewar artist Sahib Din, c. 1630-35. Inscribed above in nagari: Canto 7, verse 15 from Kesavadas’ Rasikapriya. Inscribed on verso: Inventory note from Bikaner Royal Collection am 43 jam 86 san 1751 asu sambhaliya (AD 1694) and in another hand ‘94’ noting the sequen...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-35
Extent:
1 Item

27. IO Islamic 1256

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1256
Title:
Shāhnāmah
Scope & Content:
FIRDAWSI: ‘SHAHNAMA’ (Tipu MS) Ethé 868 Fine and probably original binding (rebacked) of black leather with sunk gilt panels and medallions of floral designs. Doublures dark red with fine gold cut-out work on blue and green. 43 by 27 cm. 622 ff. Good ‘nasta‘liq’ in 4 columns of 25 lines t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+622+iii

28. Johnson 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 38
Title:
Manuscript of the Karnama-i 'Ishq in Persian by Rai Anand Ram Mukhlis, with 36 miniatures, including portraits of the emperor Muhammad Shah and Itimad a-Daula Qamaruddin Khan. Artist(s): Govardhan (fl. 1730-40)
Scope & Content:
A manuscript of the romance in Persian ‘Karnama~i-ishq’ by Rai Anand Ram Mukhlis, written by the scribe Harkulall completed on 25 Safar AH 1148/17 July 1735. Illustrated with 36 contemporary Mughal miniatures. On the flyleaf is a note signed by the author dated AH 1151/AD1738-39 recording that...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1735
Extent:
1 Item

29. Johnson 7,2

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 7,2
Title:
Yusuf in the slave market
Scope & Content:
Yusuf in the slave market. Mughal, c.1600-1605. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Numbered 40 in Persian inventory note. Drawing with slight colour; on an album page with gilt-decorated blue border and gilt-sprinkled outer margin. 169 by 94 mm; page 412 by 290 mm. Yusuf, about to...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1600-1605
Extent:
1 Item

30. Johnson 8,1

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 8,1
Title:
Prince watching bathers in a tank with numerous spectators of both sexes
Scope & Content:
Miniaturepainting: left-hand half of a double-page frontispiece to the poems of Sa‘di. Prince watching bathers in a tank, with numerous spectators of both sexes. Shiraz style, about c.1575. 13 by 7.5 cm (page 38.5 by 23.5 cm). The miniature is set in a splendid page of early sixteenth-centur...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1575
Extent:
1 Item