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Walters Ms. W.874, Single leaf from Akbarnama by Abu Fazl

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Shelf mark

W.874


Manuscript

Single leaf from Akbarnama by Abu Fazl


Text title
Akbarnāmah

Vernacular: اكبر نامه

Farhang-i Jahāngīrī

Vernacular: فرهنڱ جهانڱيرى


Author

Authority name: Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602

Supplied name: Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak

Name, in vernacular: ابو الفضل بن مبارک

Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 1011 AH / 1602 CE


Author

Supplied name: Jamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Injū Shīrāzī, d. 1035 AH / 1625-6 CE

Name, in vernacular: جمال الدين حسين انجو شيرازى


Abstract

This leaf depicting the scene of a fatal quarrel over a prostitute comes from a manuscript of Akbarnāmah (a biography of the Mughal Emperor Akbar [r. 963 AH / 1556 CE -- 1014 AH / 1605 CE]) by his prime minster Abū al- Faz̤l ibn Mubārak (d. 1011 AH / 1602 CE). It was produced in Mughal India at the end of the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The work is pasted (like W.684) on a leaf from Farhang-i Jahāngīrī (a Persian-language dictionary) by Jamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Injū Shīrāzī (d. 1035 AH / 1625-6 CE). The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with lemmata in red.


Date

End of the 10th century AH / 16th CE


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

12.5 cm wide by 22.5 cm high


Written surface

13.0 cm wide by 23.5 cm high


Layout
fols. 874a - 874b:
  1. Image: 12.9 cm wide by 22.5 cm high
fols. 874b - 874b:
  1. Columns: 1
  2. Ruled lines: 35

Contents:
fols. 874a - 874b:
  1. Title: Akbarnāmah
  2. Author: Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602
  3. Decoration note: Border illuminated with vegetal, figural, and zoomorphic motifs
fols. 874b - 874b:
  1. Title: Farhang-i Jahāngīrī
  2. Author: Jamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Injū Shīrāzī, d. 1035 AH / 1625-6 CE
  3. Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script with lemmata in red

Decoration:

fol. W.874a:

  1. W.874, fol. W.874a
  2. Title: A fatal quarrel over a prostitute
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. W.874b:

  1. W.874, fol. W.874b
  2. Title: Leaf from Farhang-i Jahāngīrī
  3. Form: Text page
  4. Label: This is a text page from Farhang-i Jahāngīrī (a Persian-language dictionary) by Jamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Injū Shīrāzī (d. 1035 AH /1625-6 CE).

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Bibliography

Pal, Pratapaditya. Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Foundation. (London: Phillip Wilson, 2001), 148-149.

For Akbarnāmah see Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 1/1. (London: Luzac, 1927- ), 543-549.

For Farhang-i Jahāngīrī see Storey, C. A. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Vol. 3/1. (London: Luzac, 1927- ), 26-29.


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.