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Or Ms 106: دیوان حافظ Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ, undated copy (original text composed 14th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 106
Scope and Contents
A collection of poems by the celebrated Persian lyric poet Shams-al-Dīn Muḥammad "Ḥāfiẓ" of Shiraz (ca. 715-792 A.H. /1315-1390 C.E.). This volume, probably copied in the 11th century A.H. (broadly, 17th cent. CE), is richly illuminated and includes twelve highly finished miniatures in Indian style.
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undated copy (original text composed 14th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 114: تصویرات راگ مالا Taṣvīrāt-i Rāg-mālā, undated
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Identifier: Or Ms 114
Scope and Contents
Music: An album illuminated by thirty-four groups of figures in gouache painting in a variety of colours, attitudes, and surroundings, representing conventional symbols of Rāgs and Rāginīs (the well-known personifications of Indian pitches).
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undated
Or Ms 510: Mahābhārata, illustrated manuscript scroll, 1795 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 510
Scope and Contents
A monumental epic (or perhaps more correctly a ‘chronicle’) dated as a text to about 400 BCE – 400 CE, the Mahābhārata consists of dramatic narrative and sermonising didactic on ethics and moral law (dharma) as played out in the lives of two groups of dynastic cousins who fought over control of Bhāratavarṣa, present day central north India. It is one of the two major epics of ancient India, the...
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1795 C.E.