Walters Ms. W.669, Album of Indian miniatures and Persian calligraphyMuraqqaʿمرقع<note type="title" xml:id="n324.216498">Title supplied by cataloger</note>Principal catalogerGacek, AdamCatalogerLandau, AmyCatalogerSmith, SitaEditorBockrath, DianeContributorBarrera, ChristinaContributorEmery, DougContributorHerbert, LynleyContributorNoel, WilliamContributorSimpson, ShreveContributorTabritha, ArielContributorToth, Michael B.ContributorValle, ChiaraConservatorJewell, StephanieConservatorQuandt, AbigailThe Walters Art Museum

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This is an album (muraqqaʿ) compiled in the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE, or possibly later. It contains nineteen Deccani paintings and four pages of shikastah calligraphy (fols. 3b, 7b, 8a, and 9b), one of which is dated 1211 AH / 1796 CE (fol. 3b). The paintings, which date to the late twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE or thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE, come from a ragmala series attributable to the Deccan. A ragmala is a visualization of a musical mode or melody. This album contains a mix of visualizations of ragas (male musical modes) and raginis (female musical modes considered to be the wives of the male musical modes). The codex was formerly in an accordion format, and the multicolor flexible cloth hinges on the leaves are still visible. It was later rebound in a brown goatskin binding with a central lobed oval.BaltimoreThe Walters Art MuseumW.669The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.fols. 1b - 13aMuraqqaʿمرقع<note type="title" xml:id="n324.216545">Title supplied by cataloger</note>Foliation: 1329.520.521.013.5Written in shikastah calligraphy (fols. 3b, 7b, 8a, and 9b)Nineteen Indian Rajput-style miniatures; borders of various colors; gold framesBindingBindingThis light brown leather binding has a green onlaid central oval.Nata raginiIllustrationThis ragini is known in some sets as Sindhu ragini.Karnata ragini (Kanada ragini)IllustrationSri ragaIllustrationMegha ragaIllustrationShikastah calligraphyCalligraphy pageThis page shows shikastah calligraphy after the model of Mīrzā Ḥasan, dated Iṣfahān, Ramadan 1211 AH / 1796 CE.Todi raginiIllustrationAsavari raginiIllustrationFemale performing a ritual at night with a full moonIllustrationThe identification is unclear on this page.Khambhavati raginiIllustrationKhambhavati raginiIllustrationMalavakausa raga (Malakausika, Malakausa, Malkos raga)IllustrationDipaka raga (Dipak)IllustrationShikastah calligraphyCalligraphy pageShikastah calligraphyCalligraphy pageBhairava ragaIllustrationThis is possibly Vasanta ragini.Madhumadhavi raginiIllustrationShikastah calligraphyCalligraphy pageVasanta ragini (Vasant)IllustrationAn Indian woman, holding a fan, at a pondIllustrationThe identification is unclear on this page.Gauri ragini (Gaudi ragini)IllustrationLalita raginiIllustrationHindola ragaIllustrationMalava raginiIllustrationThe identification is uncertain on this page.

Light brown leather (no flap); green onlaid central oval

Late 12th century AH / 18th CE -- 13th century AH / 19th CEIndia (Deccan)Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequestRelevant WorksGude, Tushara Bindu. "Between Music and History: Ragamala Paintings and European Collectors in Late Eighteenth-Century Northern India." PhD diss., University of California Los Angeles, 2009.Pal, Pratapaditya. Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967.Ebeling, Klaus. Ragamala Painting. Basel: Ravi Kumar, 1973.Dahmen-Dallapiccola, Anna Libera. Ragamala-Miniaturen von 1475 bis 1700. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1975.Waldschmidt, Ernst, and Rose Leonore Waldschmidt. Miniatures of Musical Inspiration in the Collection of the Berlin Museum of Indian Art, vol. 2. Berlin: Museum fur Indische Kunst, 1975.Falk, Toby, and Mildred Archer. Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library. London; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981.ArtMedicineMuseumPoetryScriptMuhammad, the ProphetKashmiriHorsesWalters Art MuseumBlockbookDocumentGeneologyAstrologyDevotionHistoryLegalLiterature -- PoetryLiterature -- ProseLiturgyPhilosophyScienceScience -- MedicineScriptureSufismTheologyMineralogyLogicGeographyGeomancyCosmologyCartographyFortune-tellingKoranQur`anFirmanPalimpsestPrayerBibleGospelsPsalterMissalLectionaryBook of HoursAntiphonaryPrayerbookHomilaryProcessionalHorologionBreviaryHymnalChroniclePsalter/HoursMaghrebSub-Saharan (West) AfricaTurkeyAfghanistanCentral Arab Lands (Near East)Central AsiaEgyptEnglandIndiaIranIraqPakistanGermanyFranceAustriaNetherlandsEthiopiaArmeniaFlandersGreeceMamlukMughalOttomanOttonianArmenianByzantineAbbasidQajarRajputChristianArabicAustrianDutchEgyptianFatimidGermanIndianIslamicPersianSafavidTimuridTurkishUmayyadEnglishFrenchFlemishEthiopianCarolingianCalligraphyChartsColophonHeadpieceIlluminationIllustrationMedallionMiniatureOrnamentPainting'Kufic'Early Abbasid scriptRaginiRomanesqueGothicWatermarkTreasure BindingGrotesquesHistoriated initialInhabited initialCarolingian MinusculeGothic Book handWhite-vine letteringEnglish secretaryTexturaBatardaHumanisticUncialAccordion bookAlbumBookCodexManuscriptHeraldrySaint's LifeDrawingGrisailleOriginal BindingBindingNew Abbasid stylecharter8th Century9th Century10th Century11th Century12th Century13th Century14th Century15th Century16th Century17th Century18th Century19th Century20th CenturyMusical notationRussiaRomaniaLiturgicalDevotionalScripturalTheologicalLegalHistoricalScientificScientific -- MedicalLiterary -- ProseLiterary -- PoetryPhilosophicalAstrologicalSufiEnglishCalligraphyIllustrationIndiaIranIslamicManuscriptMiniaturePersianWalters Art MuseumRajputAlbumRagini