[Album of miniatures and specimens of calligraphy of Indian origin].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Persian
Published/​Created
[between 16-- and 18--]
Description
55 leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 485 x 280 mm.

Details

Subject(s)
Calligrapher
Related name
Artist
Former owner
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Restrictions note
Access by permission of curator.
Summary note
Album of miniatures and specimens of calligraphy of Indian origin. Described by Mika Natif.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • The album consists of 55 folios measuring 485 x 280 mm.
  • Origin: The signed paintings and calligraphies are attributed to Mīr ʻAlī, Sulṭān ʻAlī al-Mashhadī, Muḥammad ʻAẓīm al-Ikthīr, ʻImād al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʻīn ʻAlī Tajallī (= Shāh Muḥammad Muʻīn ʻAlī Tajallī Chishtī, fol. 32a), Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh, Muḥammad ʻAlī, Muḥammad Badīʻ al-Iṣfahānī, Tajallī ʻAlī Shāh, Muḥammad Karīm, Anūp Chator (Chatar, Chitor: see Titley), Mīr Muḥammad Māh Ḥusaynī, Zayn al-Ḥaqq, Zarrīn Raqam, Muḥammad Afḍal, Ghulām Muṣṭafá Khān, Muḥammad Aṭhar, Asad Allāh, Mughalkhān, Ghulām Jamāl Allāh Khān, Sayyid ʻAlī Būkhārī Rūshan Raqam, Jawāhir Raqam-i Thānī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ʻAlī Gawhar, Muḥammad al-Fakhkhār, Abū al-Baqāʼ al-Mūsawī, Kifāyat Khān, Ismāʻīl, Ilyās Bahādur, Aḥmad Shāh, Muḥammad Dalīr, and date from 1014H. [1630 or 31] to 1189 [1775]. Other undated paintings can be dated to 18th-19th century India and 16th or early 17th century Central Asia. One piece is dated Awrangābād, [1]203 [1788 or 9] (fol. 22a).
Provenance
A letter attached to the album mentions that this was made for the Portuguese governor of India, but this is a late attribution. The document further indicates that the book belonged to the Delaney family who sold it to Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) from the East India Company. It was then sold to Rowland Jones Esq. (1772-1856), Broom Hall, Carnarvonshire, Wales. The album was then auctioned in an estate sale between Feb. 24 and March 8, 1857 at Carnarvonshire and was purchased by William Stewart Esq. (1798-1874) of Aldenham Abbey, Hertfordshire. Stewart sold the book at Christie's auction in London in 1875. There was probably another owner after Stewart from whom Robert Garrett (1875-1961) purchased the album.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 206
Other format(s)
Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
OCLC
244391634
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