Deccani portrait album.
- Holding institution:
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Deccani portrait album.
- Creator:
- Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
- Date:
- between 1670 and 1699?
- Description:
- 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.
- Language:
- Persian
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Persian
Manuscripts, 17th century
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts (documents)
Miniatures (paintings)
Portraits
Portraits, Indic
Deccani painting
Art, Indic - Geographic region:
- India?
- 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).
- Extent:
- One central image on each page; border-ruled.
- Publisher:
- Free Library of Philadelphia
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Rare Book Department Lewis O 191: Deccani portrait album. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book Department Lewis O 191: Deccani portrait album.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. - Identifier:
- Lewis O 191
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World