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Walters Ms. W.683, Single leaf of a battle scene from the Baburnamah

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Shelf mark

W.683


Manuscript

Single leaf of a battle scene from the Baburnamah


Text title
Battle scene from the Baburnamah

Abstract

This single leaf of a battle scene comes from an illustrated Bāburnāmah (Memoirs of Babur) executed in Mughal India during the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The text, written in black nastaʿlīq script, comes from a description of the events of the year 901 AH / 1495-6 CE. It describes how Sayyidim, Qulī Bābā, and several warriors were unhorsed in battle and how news of their fate reached Sultan Ḥusayn Mīrzā (d. 911 AH / 1506 CE). The polychrome borders surrounding this page date to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.


Date

Late 10th century AH / 16th CE


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.


Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

24.5 cm wide by 30.0 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 14.5 cm wide by 24.2 cm wide

Contents:
fols. W.683a - W.683b:
  1. Title: Battle scene from the Baburnamah
  2. Hand note: Two lines written in nastaʿlīq script

Decoration:

fol. W.683a:

  1. W.683, fol. W.683a
  2. Title: A battle scene
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Baburnama, events of the year 901 AH / 1495-6 CE
  5. Label: This single leaf of a battle scene comes from an illustrated Bāburnāmah (Memoirs of Babur) executed in Mughal India during the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The text, written in black nastaʿlīq script, comes from a description of the events of the year 901 AH / 1495-6 CE. It describes how Sayyidim, Qulī Bābā, and several warriors were unhorsed in battle and how news of their fate reached Sultan Ḥusayn Mīrzā (d. 911 AH / 1506 CE). The polychrome borders surrounding this page date to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.

fol. W.683b:

  1. W.683, fol. W.683b
  2. Title: A battle scene (back)
  3. Form: Back

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Bibliography

Thackston, W. M. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1996), 70.


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.