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Calligraphy

c. 1596
designed by

Basavana

(Indian, active c. 1560–1600)

Sur Das

(Indian)
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Culture
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Image: 34 x 20 cm (13 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.); Overall: 38.5 x 25 cm (15 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.); with mat: 49 x 36.3 cm (19 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.502.b
Public Domain
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Location
242B Indian Painting(not visible)
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Description

Akbar, the third Mughal emperor of India, commissioned an illustrated copy of the Chingiz-nama, a historical text written in Persian during the early 1300s by a Jewish scholar who converted to Islam. The Chingiz-nama is an account of the conquests of Akbar’s ancestors, the Mongols, who swept across the Asian continent from Siberia to the Mediterranean Sea during the 1200s. This page describes the final momentous defeat of the caliph of Baghdad, the religious head of Sunni Islam and political leader of the Abbasid dynasty, with the names of all the caliphs who came before him listed in red at the top.

Calligraphy

c. 1596

Basavana, Sur Das

(Indian, active c. 1560–1600), (Indian)
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

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