Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Tārīkh-i ilāhī haz̤rat Akbar pādishāh.
تارىخ الهى حضرت اکبر پادشاه

Authors

• Muʻtamad Khān, Muḥammad Sharīf, -1639 or 1640
  معتمد خان، محمد شريف،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 45
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2460536
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104210455
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_045.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2460536

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1899?

Place

India?

Summary

Selections from the first and second volume of Iqbālnāmah-ʼi Jahāngīrī. This copy contains parts of a history of Emperor Akbar and his father. The first two leaves of this volume are bound out of order and begin with the year 13 of Akbar's reign before returning to a portion of his father's rule followed by an account of Akbar's birth and ascension to the throne; the work ends abruptly in the ninth year of Akbar's rule. The final page is pasted over another written page. The work includes 29 illustrations in mixed media, some of which are incomplete and many of which have had names and comments added to them; some of the illustrations also have added pasted-on embellishments or corrections to the drawing (see f. 25v, for example).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1v).
   

Extent

I, 41 leaves, ii : 365 x 202 (275 x 131) mm bound to 375 x 235 mm

Foliation

Previous foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper center recto. Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in woven textile of large blue and yellow leaf patterns.

Layout

Chiefly 22 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Most pages border-ruled in various colors including green, yellow, brown, blue, pink; numerous illustrations in bright colors within the page, along the upper margin and along the outer margin, some unfinished; some rubrications and numbers in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by Sotheby's 9 February 1925, lot 172 (note in pencil and catalog entry, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Kings and rulers
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Biography
• Early works
• History

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Tārīkh-i ilāhī haz̤rat Akbar pādishāh.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Catalog entry
• fol. 3r — Illustration
• fol. 5r — Illustration
• fol. 7r — Illustration
• fol. 7v — Illustration
• fol. 8v — Illustration
• fol. 11r — Illustration
• fol. 12v — Illustration
• fol. 13v — Illustration
• fol. 14r — Illustration
• fol. 15v — Illustration
• fol. 16v — Illustration
• fol. 17v — Illustration
• fol. 18r — Illustration
• fol. 18v — Illustration
• fol. 20r — Illustration
• fol. 21r — Illustration
• fol. 22r — Illustration
• fol. 23r — Illustration
• fol. 24r — Illustration
• fol. 25v — Illustration
• fol. 26r — Illustration
• fol. 26v — Illustration
• fol. 27r — Illustration
• fol. 28r — Illustration
• fol. 28v — Illustration
• fol. 30v — Illustration
• fol. 32r — Illustration
• fol. 35r — Illustration
• fol. 35v — Illustration
• fol. 36r — Illustration
• fol. 37v — Illustration
• fol. 39r — Illustration
• fol. 39v — Illustration