Jushan attacks Badrchir, from a Darabnama by Muhammad Beghami
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Object Details
- Calligrapher
- Muhammad Amin al-Ansari Muhammad Ja'far
- Description
- Manuscript; Darabnama (Kitab-i-Shahzada Ashk Khusrawan B. Malik Bahman B. Firuz Shah); Persian in black naskhi script; 286 folios with 1 sarlawh (folio 1 verso), 83 paintings, 1 dated colophon (folio 286 recto), 1 illegible seal (folio 286 recto) and birth statements (folio 286 verso); inscription (folio 286 recto); standard page: 1 columns, 28 lines of text.
- Binding: The manuscript is bound in red leather over paper pasteboards with gilt block- stamped designs on the exterior covers and doublures of paper.
- Inscriptions
- Fol. 286 recto: The second volume was finished by the hand of the poor sinner in need, Ibn Muhammad al-Ansari Muhammad Ja'far in the month of Shawwal in the year [A.H.] 1094 [A.D. October 1683].
- Collection
- Arthur M. Sackler Collection
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
- 1683 (1094 A.H.)
- Accession Number
- S1986.484
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Manuscript
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 35.2 x 49.2 cm (13 7/8 x 19 3/8 in)
- Origin
- India
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- horse
- fire
- hero
- naskh script
- Iran
- India
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Darabnama
- Henri Vever collection
- Record ID
- fsg_S1986.484
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye337df17e3-feed-4a78-a98e-84e0d46a6ef8
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