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IO Islamic 4814

Record Id:
032-004342260
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4814
Title:
Treatise on horses, illustrated
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
58 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1770
End Date:
1830
Date Range:
1770-1830
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Śālihotra
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 4814

Treatise on horses, illustrated

Contents

Untitled and anonymously written treatises on horses, in two sections, illustrated in a naive style of painting

The first section (ff. 1r-47r) begins in the thirteenth faṣl of a Persian translation of a Sanskrit or Hindi treatise focusing on the location and significance of blemishes, incomplete and defective

The second section (ff. 47r-51v) describes itself as another selection from Śālihotra's Aśvāyurveda-śāśtra (dīgar intikhāb-i Shālutar)

Illustrations (ff. 1r-29r, 34r-v, 36v, 39v-45r)

Unrelated paintings and drawings at end by te same artist's hand, showing Hyderabadi and Maratha martial and courtly figures riding and hunting, without indications of landscape (ff. 53r-58v)

IOL stamp dated 1/7/86

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 58 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 370 × 242 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1770-1830 18th-19th centuries CE Deccan ; India

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