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Walters Ms. W.696, Single leaf of six spiritual teachers

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Shelf mark

W.696


Manuscript

Single leaf of six spiritual teachers


Text title
Six spiritual teachers

Abstract

This Mughal drawing, dating to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE, depicts six spiritual teachers arranged in a semi-circle. Two of these figures are Ḥazrat Miyān Shāh Mīr (d. 1045 AH / 1635 CE) and his disciple Mullā Shāh [Badakhshī] (d. 1072 AH / 1661 CE) (facing each other). Miyān Mīr was a spiritual instructor of Dārā Shikūh (d. 1069 AH / 1659 CE), the oldest son of the Mughal Emperor Shāh Jahān. The other figures are: Ḥazrat Mullā Khvājah, Miyān Abū al-Maʿālī, Shāh Muḥammad Dilrubā, and Shāh Khayālī.


Date

11th century AH / 17th CE


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical

Sufi


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

19.7 cm wide by 25.7 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 13.5 cm wide x 19.0 cm high

Contents:
fols. W.696a - W.696b:
  1. Title: Six spiritual teachers
  2. Decoration note: Illuminated borders in gold, buff, and light blue, decorated with floral motifs

Decoration:

fol. W.696a:

  1. W.696, fol. W.696a
  2. Title: Six spiritual teachers
  3. Form: Drawing
  4. Label: From the lower left clockwise to the lower right the identified figures are as follows: Shāh Khayālī, Miyān Abū al-Maʿālī, Mullā Shāh, Ḥazrat Miyān Shāh Mīr, Ḥazrat Mullā Khvājah, and Shāh Muḥammad Dilrubā.

fol. W.696b:

  1. W.696, fol. W.696b
  2. Title: Six spiritual teachers (back)
  3. Form: Back

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


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.