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[DE-SMB-ISL] I. 4601

Shelfmark
  • I. 4601
Title
  • [Album with Paintings, Butterfly Pictures, and Calligraphy]
Institution

Content

Title

↳ Established form
  • [Album with Paintings, Butterfly Pictures, and Calligraphy]
Region
Content
  • The album was identified as the fifth volume from Polier's collection due to its strikingly small format and the naturalistic butterfly images on the backs of most of the miniatures. It must have been produced in Delhi between March 1776 and September 1776, as the third volume (I. 4596) is dated 22 February and the seventh volume (I. 4599) 11 September 1776.
    In addition to the butterfly pictures, the album contains numerous miniatures with individual portraits of unknown women, Mughal rulers and courtiers, five naturalistic bird pictures and twelve calligraphic model sheets with letter combinations (murakkabāt) in Nastaʿlīq.
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. 37a = fig. 4.18]
    *
  • Gladiß, Almut von:
    Albumblätter: Miniaturen aus den Sammlungen Indo-Islamischer Herrscherhöfe. München: Edition Minerva, 2010.
    [f. 3b = fig. 47; f. 31a = fig. 43; f. 46a = fig. 10]
    *
  • Indische Albumblätter: Miniaturen und Kalligraphien aus der Zeit der Moghul-Kaiser / Regina Hickmann (ed.). Leipzig/Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1979.
    *
    Kühnel, Ernst: Arbeiten des Rizâ 'Abbâsi und seiner Schule.
    In: Forschungen und Berichte (1957), pp. 122-131.
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/3880488
    https://doi.org/10.2307/3880488
    [f. 39a = fig. 13; f. 49a =  fig. 5]

Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Boxing
  • 28.3 x 20.5 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 with two naturalistic butterfly pictures or a calligraphy and one page of painting
Number of folios
  • 49, European pagination
Dimensions
  • 28.0 x 20.0 cm

Script

↳ Style
↳ Ink
Illumination
  • margins with floral decoration or sprinkled with gold
Miniatures
  • 59 miniatures, 35 butterfly pictures, 12 calligraphic compositions

History of the object

Entstehung

Autograph

1776 in Delhi, Indien (GND: 4026722-2, GND: 4011371-1)

  • Miniature painter
↳ Name
↳ Note on the Person
  • Signatur auf f. 49a:
    رقم کمینه رضا عباسی
    raqam-i kamīnah Riz̤ā-i ʿAbbāsī
    'drawing by the humble Riz̤ā-i ʿAbbasī'

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
  • 1776-1780
  • Delhi, India
  • produced for

Access and usage

Institution
Shelfmark
  • I. 4601
Additional numbers
  • old classmark: IC 24352
Editor
  • weis
Status of edit
  • First input complete
Static URL
https://mymssportal.dl.uni-leipzig.de/receive/DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000157
MyCoRe ID
DEMUS019014Book_manuscript_00000157 (XML view)
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