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[DE-SMB-ISL] I. 4593

Shelfmark
  • I. 4593
Title
  • [Album with Painting and Calligraphy]
Institution

Content

Title

↳ Established form
  • [Album with Painting and Calligraphy]
Region
Content
  • This is one of the two earliest albums that Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier de Bottens (1741-1795) acquired in India or had compiled by his workshop. This and the second album (British Museum, London, 1920,0917,0.76-111) both bear a pseudo-seal impression on the inside back cover with the date 1181/1767-68 and have characteristic frames with schematic floral patterns and Chinese-inspired golden tendrils. The miniatures collected in I. 4593 all bear French subtitles in Polier's handwriting and are numbered according to European pagination. The 65 pictures, two silhouettes (f. 5b and f. 29a) and calligraphies in Nastaʿlīq (with one exception on f. 34b in Šikasta) - eleven of which are signed (f. 1a, 20a, 24b, 27b, 36b, 38b, 41b, 42b, 45b, 46b, 49b) - date from the 17th and 18th centuries. Two calligraphies are dated (f. 34b dated 23 Rabīʿ I 1095/10.03.1684; f. 36v dated 1080/1669-70, probably a copy of a work by ʿAbd al-Rahīm ʿAnbarīn Qalam). The miniatures include a drawing attributed to the Mughal painter Hāšim (active 1598-1654) on f. 13a and a portrait of the courtesan Panna Begum on f. 10v.
Completeness
Language
Script
  • Artist
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • f. 9b attributed to his school
    signature on f. 50a:
    رقم کمینه رضا عباسی
    raqam-i kamīnah Riz̤ā-i ʿAbbāsī
    'drawing by the humble Riz̤ā-i ʿAbbasī'
  • Artist
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 13a:
    عمل میرزا هاشم
    ʿamal-i Mīrzā Hāshim
Editions/Literature
  • Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs: Audiences – Artists – Patrons and Collectors (Islamic Manuscripts and Books, vol. 23) / Friederike Weis (ed.). Leiden/Boston: Brill, forthcoming.
    [table 7.1; cover with pseudo-seal impression = fig. 7.4; f. 13a = fig. 13.16; f. 27a = figs. 7.5 and 9.4; f. 33a = fig. 14.5]
    *
  • Struth, Simone:
    Unter Pavillons und Mangobäumen – Gärten in islamischer Moghulmalerei.
    In: Eothen: Münchener Beiträge zur Geschichte der islamischen Kunst und Kultur der Welt 8 (2018), pp. 323-349.
    [f. 8a = fig. 5]
    *
    Gladiß, Almut von:
    Albumblätter: Miniaturen aus den Sammlungen Indo-Islamischer Herrscherhöfe. München: Edition Minerva, 2010.
    [f. 5a = fig. 25; f. 9a = fig. 45; f. 45a = fig. 49; f. 46a = fig. 28; f. 49a = fig. 6; f. 50a = fig. 18]
    *
    Roy, Malini:
    The Artist Mihr Chand Son of Ganga Ram (fl. 1759-86): Idiosyncrasies in the Late Mughal Painting Tradition, PhD diss. (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2009).
    https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00033847
    [f. 47a = fig. 142]
    *
    Taswir: Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne / Almut Sh. Bruckstein Çoruh und Hendrik Budde (eds.). Berlin: Nicolai 2009.
    [f. 24a = fig. on p. 182]
    *
    Museum für Islamische Kunst: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Mainz: von Zabern, 2001.
    [f. 34a = illus. on p. 147; 49a = illus. on p. 141]
    *
  • Indische Albumblätter: Miniaturen und Kalligraphien aus der Zeit der Moghul-Kaiser / Regina Hickmann (Hrsg.). Leipzig/Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1979.
    [f. 12b = pl. 18; f. 24a = pl. 43; f. 26 = pl. 51; f. 34b = pl. 11; f. 45a = pl. 39; f. 45b = pl. 40; f. 46a = pl. 21; f. 49a = pl. 1]
    *
  • Kühnel, Ernst:
    Arbeiten des Rizâ 'Abbâsi und seiner Schule.
    In: Forschungen und Berichte 1 (1957), pp. 122-131.
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/3880488
    https://doi.org/10.2307/3880488
    [f. 9b = fig. 6; f. 50a = fig. 4]

Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Boxing
  • 42.6 x 27.5 cm
Binding
  • brown leather binding painted with golden floral patterns, embossed in the centre and in the corners; inner cover red leather with golden borders, medallions and a pseudo-seal imprint

Writing material

↳ Material
↳ State of preservation
  • disbound, loose folios, each with one page of calligraphy and one page of painting; f. 17, 18 and 19 incomplete or missing
Number of folios
  • 50, European pagination
Dimensions
  • 42.5 x 28.5 cm

Script

↳ Style
↳ Ink
Illumination
  • margins with floral decoration
Miniatures
  • 67 miniatures, 30 calligraphic pieces

History of the object

Entstehung

Autograph

1760-80 in Delhi, Allahabad or Awadh (today's Uttar Pradesh), Faizabad (GND: 4026722-2, GND: 4277882-7, GND: 4330287-7, GND: 4084961-2)

  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 20a:
    العبد جواهر رقم غفر له
    al-ʿabd Javāhir Raqam ghafara lahū
    The servant [of God] Javāhir Raqam may [Gott] forgive him.
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 36b:
    جهانکیر شاهی
    تحریر السنه ۱۰۸۰
    فقیرعبد الرحیم عنبرین قلم
    Jahāngīr-Shāhī / taḥrīr al-sana 1080/1669-70 / faqīr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ʿAnbarīn Qalam
    'from the reign of Jahangir / transcript (copy?) in the year 1080/1669-70 / the poor servant [of God] ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Amber-Pen'

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 from the guardian of Polier's sons
  • 1760-1780
  • Delhi, Allahabad or Faizabad in Awadh (today's Uttar Pradesh), India
  • produced between ca. 1760 and 1780, acquired or looted by Polier in 1767 or earlier
Provenance entry
  • Other: round pseudo-seal impression on the inside back cover (diameter: 11.8 cm):
    شاه عالم بادشاه غازی
    ارسلان جنک فدوی
    امتیاز الدواه مجیرپولیر
    بهادر
    افتخار الملک
    ۱۱۸۱
    1181
    Iftikhār al-Mulk
    Bahādur
    Imtiyāz al-Dawlah Mayjir Pūlīr
    Arsalān Jang fidvī-i
    Shāh ʿĀlam Bādishāh Ghāzī
    '1181/1767-68 / pride of the realm / hero / ornament of the state, Major Polier / lion of battle, devoted servant of / Shah ʿAlam, king, religious warrior'

Access and usage

Institution
Shelfmark
  • I. 4593
↳ alternate
  • Old shelfmark : IC 24342
Editor
  • Weis
Status of edit
  • First input complete
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https://mymssportal.dl.uni-leipzig.de/receive/DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000012
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DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000012 (XML view)
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