Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14634252
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1144954231
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_405.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14634252

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

18--?

Place

India?

Summary

Two miniatures both taken from the same manuscript, possibly one of the Naṣīḥatnāmah. The first miniature (dimensions 148 x 110 mm) depicts the king talking to a standing figure while four other figures sit in waiting. The second miniature (dimensions 120 x 115 mm) from chapter 13 of the text (on avoiding people who betray others) depicts the king conversing with a kneeling person in green while a second kneeling person in orange turns to say something to the two men standing behind him.

Notes

• Manuscript leaves.
   
• Note in English describing the leaves pasted to verso of first leaf.
   

Extent

Support

Layout

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in beige, black, red, blue with page-opening frame-rule in blue; rubrications in red; half-page illustrations in pastel colors (f. 1r, 2r).

Script

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. ("David Eugene Smith Library" stamp on verso.)
   

Subjects topical

• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Detached leaves

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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