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

Title

Deccani portrait album.

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Grenville, Thomas, 1755-1846, former owner
• Clark, Clarence H. 1833-1906, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Samuel T. Freeman & Co, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 191
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2529159
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1141198451
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_191.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2529159

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1670 and 1699?

Place

India?

Summary

Deccani portrait album beginning with the Mughal emperors, proceeding to the Deccani kings, then closing with the Safavid shahs; the images are labeled in Persian in the lower corner with Latin script titles added near the shoulder of each person. Possibly produced during the reign of Abul Hasan Qutb Shah (r. 1672-1687) the last ruler of the Golconda sultanate. The album is bound to be viewed left to right; probably for export to Europe.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Catalog entry, number 190, pasted into back inside cover. Memorandum describing the manuscript written in ink pasted to second flyleaf verso at front of book.
   

Extent

Ii, 98, ii leaves : 297 x 185 (233 x 128) mm, bound to 298 x 190 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper outer corner on interleaves. Each image has a blank leaf bound between that bears the same foliation number as the following leaf.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with gilt-stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and frame; red leather doublure; marbled paper endleaves; spine stamped "The Mogol Dress".

Layout

One central image on each page; border-ruled.

Decoration

Paintings are in bright colors on bright backgrounds; border-ruled in gold with gold floral marginal fill.

Script

Labels in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Earl Grenville (memorandum and catalog entry).
   
• Formerly owned by Clarence H. Clark (bookplate, inside back cover).
   
• Sold at the Clark sale, 30 November 1909 at the Samuel T. Freedman & Co. book auction rooms (note in pencil on memorandum, second front flyleaf verso).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate, back flyleaf verso).
   

Subjects topical

• Portraits, Indic
• Deccani painting
• Art, Indic

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Portraits

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Catalog entry, number 100
• Inside front cover — Bookplate: Clarence H. Clark
• 1 — Illustration: اكبر جلال الدين
• 2 — Illustration: جهان كير
• 3 — Illustration: شاه جهان
• 4 — Illustration: دارا شكوه
• 5 — Illustration: اورنك شاه
• 6 — Illustration: سلطان شجاع
• 7 — Illustration: مراد بخش
• 8 — Illustration: سلطان معظم
• 9 — Illustration: سلطان أعظم
• 9 — Illustration: سلطان أعظم
• 10 — Illustration: مير محمد سعيد
• 10 — Illustration: مير محمد سعيد
• 11 — Illustration: مير محمد امين خان
• 11 — Illustration: مير محمد امين خان
• 12 — Illustration: راجا جون
• 12 — Illustration: راجا جون
• 13 — Illustration: اينجي خان
• 13 — Illustration: اينجي خان
• 14 — Illustration: راجا كرت سنك
• 14 — Illustration: راجا كرت سنك
• 15 — Illustration: فتح جنك خان
• 15 — Illustration: فتح جنك خان
• 16 — Illustration: راجا بهار سنك
• 16 — Illustration: راجا بهار سنك
• 17 — Illustration: سلطان خدا وردى
• 17 — Illustration: سلطان خدا وردى
• 18 — Illustration: صف شكن خان
• 18 — Illustration: صف شكن خان
• 19 — Illustration: سلطان محمد قلي
• 19 — Illustration: سلطان محمد قلي
• 20 — Illustration: ملا طيفور
• 20 — Illustration: ملا طيفور
• 21 — Illustration: ابراهيم پاد شاه
• 21 — Illustration: ابراهيم پاد شاه
• 22 — Illustration: شيخ محمد خاتون
• 22 — Illustration: شيخ محمد خاتون
• 23 — Illustration: سلطان عبد الله
• 23 — Illustration: سلطان عبد الله
• 24 — Illustration: سيد مظفر
• 24 — Illustration: سيد مظفر
• 25 — Illustration: موسى خان
• 25 — Illustration: موسى خان
• 26 — Illustration: عبد الجبار
• 26 — Illustration: عبد الجبار
• 27 — Illustration: خيراتخان
• 27 — Illustration: خيراتخان
• 28 — Illustration: نيكنامخان
• 28 — Illustration: نيكنامخان
• 29 — Illustration: شرذات خان
• 29 — Illustration: شرذات خان
• 30 — Illustration: ميرزا ناصر
• 30 — Illustration: ميرزا ناصر
• 31 — Illustration: ميرزا احمد
• 31 — Illustration: ميرزا احمد
• 32 — Illustration: شاه ميرزا
• 32 — Illustration: شاه ميرزا
• 33 — Illustration: ملا عبد الصمد
• 33 — Illustration: ملا عبد الصمد
• 34 — Illustration: سيد همزه
• 34 — Illustration: سيد همزه
• 35 — Illustration: حسن خان
• 35 — Illustration: حسن خان
• 36 — Illustration: پسر سيد مظفر
• 36 — Illustration: پسر سيد مظفر
• 37 — Illustration: سلطان عبد الحسن
• 37 — Illustration: سلطان عبد الحسن
• 38 — Illustration: مادّنا
• 38 — Illustration: مادّنا
• 39 — Illustration: سيواجي
• 39 — Illustration: سيواجي
• 40 — Illustration: محمد ابراهيم
• 40 — Illustration: محمد ابراهيم
• 41 — Illustration: شاه صفي
• 41 — Illustration: شاه صفي
• 42 — Illustration: شاه عبّاس
• 42 — Illustration: شاه عبّاس
• 43 — Illustration: على عادلشاه
• 43 — Illustration: على عادلشاه
• 44 — Illustration: عبد المحمود
• 44 — Illustration: عبد المحمود
• 45 — Illustration: مصطفى خان
• 45 — Illustration: مصطفى خان
• fol. 46r — Illustration: محمود عادلشاه
• Insert recto — Notations in pencil in English