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[DE-SMB-ISL] I. 4594

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  • I. 4594
Title
  • [Album of Painting and Calligraphy]
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Title

↳ Established form
  • [Album of Painting and Calligraphy]
Region
Content
  • According to the Shamsa dedication to Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier de Bottens (1741-1795), the album with the volume number "No. 9" was completed in Delhi on 19 January 1777. The first and last double-page spreads each show two juxtaposed miniatures, signed by the Mughal painter and compiler Mihr Chand, who also created thirteen other pictures in this album. Two miniatures are signed by Mughal painters of the early 18th century: f. 24a by Shivadas and f. 36a by Dalchand. The other double leaves of the album each combine a calligraphic piece on the left with a miniature on the right. The calligraphies are written in many different writing styles and variations of form, 13 of them are signed (f. 3b, 7b, 8b, 12b, 13b, 14b, 15b, 18b, 19a, 24b, 26b, 29b, 36b), some by well-known Indian and Iranian calligraphers of the 17th century.
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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; f. 1b = fig. 9.13; f. 2b = fig. 12.13; f. 15b = fig. 9.5; f. 17b = fig. 11.13; f. 21a = fig. 13.1; f. 25b = fig. 10.6; f. 31a = fig. 7.2; f. 34a = fig. 13.12; f. 34b = fig. 9.22; f. 36b = fig. 10.19; f. 37b = fig. 10.11; f. 38a = fig. 8.8]
    *
    Weis, Friederike:
    Von zwei Seiten betrachtbar: Indische Alben für Antoine-Louis Polier.
    In: Ordnen – Vergleichen – Erzählen: Materialität, kennerschaftliche Praxis und Wissensorganisation in Klebebänden des 17. und 18. Jahrhundert / Elisabeth Oy-Marra und Annkatrin Kaul-Trivolis (eds.). Merzhausen: ad picturam, 2024, pp. 125–153.
    https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1408.c20488
    [f. 1b-2a = fig. 3; f. 31b-32a = fig. 2; f. 40b = fig. 1]
    *
    Weis, Friederike:
    Cruel Conquerors and a Solomonic Saint: European Collectors’ Interests in Indian Muraqqaʿs.
    In: Manuscript Albums and Their Cultural Contexts: Collectors, Objects, and Practices (Studies in Manuscripts Cultures, vol. 34) / Janine Droese and Janina Karolewski (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 125–165.
    https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111321462-004
    [f. 24a = figs. 11 und 12; f. 36r =  figs. 19 und 20 ]
    *
  • 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), S. 323-349.
    [f. 12a = fig. 2; f. 29a = fig. 4; f. 39a = fig. 3]
    *
    Overton, Keelan:
    “Maid Killing a Snake” and “ Dervish Receiving a Visitor”: A Re-Examination of Bijapuri Masterpieces through the Lens of the Lucknow Copy.
    In: Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition / Alka Patel und Karen Leonard (eds.). Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 37-60.
    [f. 40a = fig. 3.6]
    *
    India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow / Stephen Markel with Tushara Bindu Gude (eds.). München et al.: DelMonico/Prestel, 2010.
    [f. 1b = cat.no. 150; f. 2a = cat.no.  121; f. 27a = cat.no. 116; f. 32a = cat.no. 115; f. 40a = cat.no.  117; f. 40v = fig. 24]
    *
    Gladiß, Almut von:
    Albumblätter: Miniaturen aus den Sammlungen Indo-Islamischer Herrscherhöfe. München: Edition Minerva, 2010.
    [f. 5a = fig. 50; f. 11a = fig. 55; f. 12a = fig. 7; f. 22a = fig. 21; f. 24a = fig. 60; f. 32a = fig. 2; f. 33a = fig. 31; f. 34a = fig. 41]
    *
    Roy, Malini:
    Some Unexpected Sources for Paintings by the Artist Mihr Chand (fl. c. 1759-86), son of Ganga Ram.
    In: South Asian Studies 26/1 (2010), pp. 21–30.
    [f. 21a = fig. 1; f. 28a = fig. 8]
    *
    Taswir: Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne / Almut Sh. Bruckstein Çoruh und Hendrik Budde (eds.). Berlin: Nicolai 2009.
    [f. 8a = illus. on p. 183]
    *
    Gladiss v., Almut:
    Ibrahim Ibn Adham – Darling of the Angels.
    In: Facts and Artefacts: Art in the Islamic World (Festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th Birthday) / Annette Hagedorn und Avionam Shalem (eds.), Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007, pp. 305-312.
    [f. 36a = fig. 2]
    *
    Haase, Claus-Peter:
    Kalligraphische Meisterwerke.
    In: Islamische Kunst in Berliner Sammlungen: 100 Jahre Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin / Désirée Heiden und Jens Kröger (eds.). Berlin: Parthas, 2004, pp. 116-122.
    [f. 29b = fig. 90]
    *
    Museum für Islamische Kunst: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Mainz: von Zabern, 2001.
    [f. 22a = illus. on p. 145; f. 26a  = illus. on p. 146]
    *
    Gadebusch, Raffael Dedo:
    Celestial Gardens: Mughal Miniatures from an Eighteenth Century Album.
    In: Orientations 31/9 (2000), pp. 69-74.
    [f. 39b = fig. 3]
    *
  • Gadebusch, Raffael Dedo:
    Das Paradies liegt in Hindustan... Die Darstellung des islamischen Gartens in der Moghulmalerei.
    In: Indo-Asiatische Zeitschrift 2 (1998), pp. 64-80.
    [f. 12a = fig. 3]
    *
  • Zebrowski, Marc:
    Deccani Painting. London: Sotheby's, 1983
    [f. 26a = fig. 137 und pl. 19; f. 40a = fig. 53]
    *
  • Indische Albumblätter: Miniaturen und Kalligraphien aus der Zeit der Moghul-Kaiser / Regina Hickmann (ed.). Leipzig/Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1979.
    [f. 3b = pl. 22; f. 7b = pl. 34; f. 11r = pl. 41; f. 11b = pl. 28; f. 12a = pl. 3; f. 13b = pl. 50; f. 15b = pl. 58; f. 24b = pl. 4; f. 32a = pl. 59; f. 33a = pl. 33; f. 34a = pl. 35; f. 36b = pl. 34; f. 40b = pl. 60]
    *
    Kühnel, Ernst:
    Islamische Schriftkunst. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972 (1. Aufl. 1942).
    [f. 17b = fig. 57; f. 29b = fig. 76; f. 36b = fig. 72]

Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Boxing
  • 41.5 x 28.5 cm
Binding
  • red leather binding with gilded embossing at the edges and in the centre

Writing material

↳ Material
↳ State of preservation
  • disbound, loose folios, each with one page of calligraphy and one page of painting
Number of folios
  • 40, European pagination
Dimensions
  • 39.0-41.5 x 27.0-28.5 cm

Script

↳ Style
↳ Ink
Illumination
  • margins with floral decoration
Miniatures
  • 41 miniatures, 37 calligraphic compositions, one rosette (Shamsa) with dedication

History of the object

Entstehung

Autograph

9 Dhu al-Ḥijja 1190/19.01.1777 in Delhi (GND: 4026722-2, GND: 4011371-1)

  • Miniature painter
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signatures on f. 1b, 2a, 6a, 8a, 9a, 10a, 16a, 18a, 21a, 25a, 27a, 28a, 30a, 32a, 38a, 39b, 40a
    عمل مهر چند پسر کنکا رام
    ʿamal-i Mihr Čand pisar-i Gangā Rām
    work of Mihr Čand, son of Gangā Rām
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 3b:
    عبد الرحیم فقیرعنبرین قلم ۱۰۲۱
    ʿAbd al-Raḥīm faqīr ʿAnbarīn Qalam 1021/1612-13
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 7b (erased, but readable):
    دارا شکوه ستر الله عیوبه ۱۱۴۰
    Dārā Shikūh satara Allāh ʿuyūbahu sana 1040
    'Dara Shikuh may God forgive [conceal] his mistakes, year 1040/1630-31'.
    *
    signature on f. 36b:
    راقمه دارا شکوه
    rāqamahū Dārā Shikūh
    'Dara Shikuh wrote it'.
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 13b
    العبد جواهر رقم
    al-ʿabd Javāhir Raqam
    'The servant [of God] Javāhir Raqam'
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 29b
    میر خلیل الله
    Mīr Khalīl Allāh
  • Miniature painter
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 36a:
    عمل دالچند مصورپسر بهونیداس
    ʿamal-i Dālchand muṣavvir / pisar-i Bhavanīdās
    'Work of Dālchand the painter / son of Bhavanīdās'.
Colophon
  • dedicatory rosette (shamsa) on f. 40b:
    هو الله
    این مرقع چهل ورق بخط نسختعلیق و غیره از
    خشنویسان روزکر بابت سرکار فیض آثار نواب
    افتخار الملک امتیاز الدوله میجر پولیر بهادر ارسلان جنک دام اقبله
    تاریخ نهم ذیحجه سنه ۱۱۹۰ هجری مطاقب سنه ۱۸ جلوسی ترتیب یافت ه
    Huwa Allāh
    īn muraqqaʿ-i chihil varaq ba-khaṭṭ-i naskhtaʿlīq wa-ghayruhu az / khushnavīsān-i rūzigār bābat-i sarkār-i i fayz̤-ās̠ār navvāb / Iftikhār al-mulk Imtiyāz al-Dawlah Mayjir Pūlīr Bahādur Arsalān jang dāma iqbāluhu / tārīkh-i nuhum-i dhīḥijja-yi [sic] sana 1190 hijrī muṭābiq-i sana 18 julūsī tartīb yāft h

    ‘God, Himself!
    This album of 40 leaves in Naskh-Taʿlīq script and others by calligraphers of the time was compiled for the excellent commander, the representative [of the emperor], pride of the empire, ornament of the government, Major Polier, hero, lion of battle [Mughal honorific titles] – may his happiness last forever – on the ninth Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year 1190/19. 01.1777, corresponding to the 18th year of the accession [of Shāh ʿĀlam II]’.

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
  • 19 January 1777
  • Delhi, India
  • produced for
Provenance entry
  • Other: light-coloured paper with the inscription 'No. 9.' pasted to the top of the back cover

Access and usage

Institution
Shelfmark
  • I. 4594
Additional numbers
  • old classmark: IC 24343
Editor
  • weis
Status of edit
  • First input complete
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https://mymssportal.dl.uni-leipzig.de/receive/DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000013
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DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000013 (XML view)
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