The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
Calligraphy
c. 1596
designed by
(Indian, active c. 1560–1600)
(Indian)
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.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.502.b
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
This fortified city in the heart of Kurdistan, now called Irbil, is in Iraq.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.- Demotte?-1947(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1947-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: cat. no. 777 archive.org
- Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).
- {{cite web|title=Calligraphy|url=false|author=Basavana, Sur Das|year=c. 1596|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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