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[DE-SMB-AKU] I 5062

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Shelfmark
  • I 5062
Title
  • [Album of Rāgamālā miniatures]
Institution

Content

Title

↳ Title in manuscript
  • Volume seizième, Musique - nommé Raajmala
↳ Established form
  • [Album of Rāgamālā miniatures]
Region
Content
  • The album was produced for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier de Bottens (1741–1795) between 1780 and 1787 in Lucknow (Awadh, today's Uttar Pradesh). After a stay of 30 years in India, Polier returned to Europe, embarking from Calcutta (Kolkata) in January 1788.
    The floral decoration of the margins is typical of Polier's workshop in Lucknow. The miniatures illustrate six male melody types (rāgas), to each of which five female melody types (rāginīs) are assigned, making a total "garland" (mālā) of 36 musical moods.
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Editions/Literature
  • India’s Fabled City : The Art of Courtly Luknow / Stephen Markel mit Tushara Bindu Gude (eds.).  München et al. : DelMonico/Prestel, 2010.
    [f. 11 (26) = cat.no. 124]
    *
  • Waldschmidt, Ernst and Rose Leonore:
    Miniatures of Musical Inspiration in the Collection of the Berlin Museum of Indian Art, Part II : Rāgamālā-Pictures from Northern India and the Deccan (Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Indische Kunst Berlin, vol. 3). Berlin : Museum für Indische Kunst, 1975.
    [ = List I, No. 30 and Appendix II, § 281-284]
    *
  • Waldschmidt, Ernst:
    Londoner Entsprechungen zu einer Berliner Serie musikinspirierter indischer Miniaturen.
    In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen : I. Philologisch-historische Klasse 7 (1962), pp. 175-199.
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Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Binding
  • brown leather binding with gilded embossing at the edges and in the centre

Writing material

↳ Material
↳ State of preservation
  • disbound, loose folios with blank reverses
Number of folios
  • 36, European pagination (Persian pagination in brackets)
Dimensions
  • 31.0 x 23.1 cm

Script

↳ Style
↳ Ink
Illumination
  • margins with floral decoration
Miniatures
  • 36 miniatures

History of the object

Entstehung

Autograph

1780-1787 in Awadh (today's Uttar Pradesh), Lucknow (GND: 4026722-2, GND: 4277882-7, GND: 4111406-1)

Provenance

Provenance
  • 1882
  • London
  • acquired by the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett from the 12th Duke of Hamilton, handed over to the Königliche Museum für Völkerkunde (Royal Museum of Ethnology) in 1891
  • 1844
  • Hamilton Palace, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
  • passed into possession of the Hamilton family through marriage of Alexander Hamilton Douglas (10th Duke of Hamilton) with Susan Euphemia Beckford
  • 1799-1800
  • Lausanne
  • presumably acquired by William Beckford from the guardian of Polier's sons
  • 1780-1787
  • Lucknow
  • produced for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier de Bottens between 1780 and 1787
Provenance entry
  • Other: loose flyleaves with short descriptions and original French title:
    Volume seizième, Musique – nommē Raajmala

Access and usage

Institution
Shelfmark
  • I 5062
Additional numbers
  • old classmark: IC 24346
Editor
  • Weis
Status of edit
  • finished
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https://mymssportal.dl.uni-leipzig.de/receive/DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000007
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DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000007 (XML view)
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