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[DE-SMB-ISL] I. 4599

Shelfmark
  • I. 4599
Title
  • [Album of Painting and Calligraphy]
Institution

Content

Title

↳ Established form
  • [Album of Painting and Calligraphy]
Region
Content
  • The album with the volume number ‘Volume septieme’ (f. 1a), according to the dedication on f. 40b for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier de Bottens (1741-1795), was completed in Delhi on 11 September 1776, after Polier had entered the service of the Mughal emperor Shāh ʿĀlam II (r. 1760-1806) in March 1776.
    The album contains numerous signed works by contemporary calligraphers. The miniatures show many naturalistic depictions of animals, standing portraits of contemporary and historical rulers and courtiers as well as harem scenes.
Completeness
Language
Script
Editions/Literature
  • Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs: Audiences – Artists – Patrons and Collectors (Islamic Manuscripts and Books, vol. 23) / Friederike Weis (ed.). Leiden/Boston: Brill, forthcoming.
    [Tab. 7.1; f. 2a = fig. 14.1;  f. 2b = fig. 12.6; f. 3a = fig. 6.11; f. 6a = fig. 6.12; f. 7b = fig. 6.13; f. 10a = fig. 6.17; f. 10a = fig. 9.25; f. 18a = fig. 6.18; f. 19a = fig. 12.9; f. 25a = fig. 12.7; f. 27b-28a = fig. 7.17; f. 29b = fig. 10.7; f. 31b = fig. 12.8; f. 36b = fig. 12.14; f. 37b = fig. 6.15; f. 38b = fig. 9.11; f. 40b = fig. 6.10]
    *
    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. 14 a = fig. 6]
    *
  • Gladiß, Almut von:
    Albumblätter: Miniaturen aus den Sammlungen Indo-Islamischer Herrscherhöfe. München: Edition Minerva, 2010.
    [f. 25a = fig. 58]
    *
  • Indische Albumblätter: Miniaturen und Kalligraphien aus der Zeit der Moghul-Kaiser / Regina Hickmann (ed.). Leipzig/Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1979.
    [f. 7b = pl. 52; f. 9a = pl. 53; f. 9b = pl. 48; f. 38b =pl. 54]
    *
    Kühnel, Ernst:
    Islamische Schriftkunst. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972 (1st ed. 1942).
    [f. 20b = fig. 74]

Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Boxing
  • 41.5 x 28.5 cm
Binding
  • brown 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; f. 21 und 22 incomplete
Number of folios
  • 40, European pagination
Dimensions
  • 40.5 x 28.0 cm

Script

↳ Style
↳ Ink
Illumination
  • margins with floral decoration
Miniatures
  • 39 miniatures, 36 calligraphic compositions, one dedicatory inscription

History of the object

Entstehung

Autograph

27 Rajab 1190/11 September 1776 in Delhi, Indien (GND: 4026722-2, GeoNames: 4011371-1)

  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 2b:
    نقل از جط میرزا محمد حسین میر محمد حسین عطا خان است
    naql-i khaṭṭ-i Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥusayn Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ʿAṭā Khān ast
    "[This] ist a copy of the script of Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥusayn by Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ʿAṭā Khān."
    signature on f. 20b:
    مرصع رقم خان عرف میر محمد حسین عطا خان
    Muraṣṣaʿ Raqam Khān ʿurifa Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ʿAṭā Khān
    'Muraṣṣaʿ Raqam Khān known as Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ʿAṭā Khān'.
    signature on f. 27b:
    مشق میر محمد حسین عطا خان
    mashq-i Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ʿAṭā Khān
    'Calligraphic exercise by Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ʿAṭā Khān'
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 5b:
    کتبه عبد الرحیم
    katabahū ʿAbd al-Raḥīm
    'ʿAbd al-Raḥīm wrote this'.
  • Calligrapher
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • signature on f. 12b:
    راقمه اعجاز رقم خان
    rāqamahū Iʿjāz Raqam Khān
    'Iʿjāz Raqam Khān wrote this'.
    signature on f. 33b:
    راقمه اعجاز رقم خان
    rāqamahū Iʿjāz Raqam Khān
    'Iʿjāz Raqam Khān wrote this'.
Colophon
  • dedicatory inscription on f. 40b:
    هو الله العزیز
    این مرقع چهل ورق بخط نسختعلیق و شکسته وثلث وغیره ازخوشنویسان
    یکتای روزکر بابت سرکار فیض آثارنواب افتخار الملک امتیاز الدوله
    میجر پولیر بهادرارسلان جنک دام اقبله در بلده دآر الخلافه شاهجهاناباد
    بتاریخ بیست و هفتم رجب المرجب سنهد۱۱۹۰ هجری مطابق سنه ۱۸ جلوس
    مبارک شاه عالم ادشاه غازی خلد الله ملکه باتمام رسید ه

    Huwa Allāh al-ʿazīz
    īn muraqqaʿ-i chihil varaq ba-khaṭṭ-i Naskh-i taʿlīq va Shikastah va Thuluth wa-ghayruhu az khushnavīsān-i / yiktā-i rūzigār bābat-i sarkār-i fayz̤-ās̠ār navvāb Iftikhār al-Mulk Imtiyāz al-Dawlah / Mayjir Pūlīr Bahādur Arsalān Jang dāma iqbāluhu dar balada-i dār al-khalāfa Shāhjahānābād / ba-tārīkh-i bīst-u-haftum rajab al-murajjab sana 1190 hijrī muṭābiq-i sana-i 18 julūs-i / mubārak-i Shāh ʿĀlam Pādshāh Ghāzī khalad Allāh mulkahu ba-itmām rasīd h

    'He is God Almighty!
    This album with 40 leaves in the writing styles Naskhtaʿliq (Nastaʿlīq), Shikastah and S̠ulus̠ and others was completed by unique contemporary calligraphers for the excellent commander, the representative [of the emperor], pride of the empire, ornament of the government, Major Polier, hero, lion of battle - may his prosperity last forever – in the caliphate city of Shahjahanabad [Delhi] / on the 27th of the month Rajab al-Murajjab of the year 1190 Hiǧrī [11 September 1776] corresponding to the 18th year of the blessed throne of Shāh ʿĀlam [II] of the month Rajab al-Murajjab of the year 1190 Hiǧrī [11 September 1776], corresponding to the 18th year of the blessed accession of Šāh ʿĀlam [II] the king of the religious warriors – may God immortalise his kingdom'.

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
  • 11 September 1776
  • Delhi, India
  • produced for
Provenance entry
  • Other: Volume septieme (f. 1a)

Access and usage

Institution
Shelfmark
  • I. 4599
Additional numbers
  • old classmark: IC 24349
Editor
  • weis
Status of edit
  • First input complete
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https://mymssportal.dl.uni-leipzig.de/receive/DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000156
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DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000156 (XML view)
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