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Published 2009

The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street

Baltimore, Maryland

21201

http://www.thewalters.org/


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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in

Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been

digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,

and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at

the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For

further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact

us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department

of Manuscripts.

NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages in

order, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front”

for a Western manuscript.


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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.


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fol. 10a:

Title: Vasanta ragini (Vasant)

Form: Illustration

fol. 11a:

Title: An Indian woman, holding a fan, at a pond

Form: Illustration Label: The identification is unclear on this page.

fol. 11b:

Title: Gauri ragini (Gaudi ragini)

Form: Illustration

fol. 12a:

Title: Lalita ragini

Form: Illustration

fol. 12b:

Title: Hindola ragaForm: Illustration

fol. 13a:

Title: Malava ragini

Form: Illustration

Label: The identification is uncertain on this page.

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding The binding is not original.

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

Bibliography Gude, 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.


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fol. 5a:

Title: Female performing a ritual at night with a full

moon

Form: Illustration

Label: The identification is unclear on this page.

fol. 5b:Title: Khambhavati ragini

Form: Illustration

fol. 6a:

Title: Khambhavati ragini

Form: Illustration

fol. 6b:

Title: Malavakausa raga (Malakausika, Malakausa,

Malkos raga)

Form: Illustration

fol. 7a:

Title: Dipaka raga (Dipak)

Form: Illustration

fol. 7b:

Title: Shikastah calligraphy

Form: Calligraphy page

fol. 8a:



fol. 8b:

Title: Bhairava raga

Form: Illustration

Label: This is possibly Vasanta ragini.

fol. 9a:

Title: Madhumadhavi ragini

Form: Illustration

fol. 9b:




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Decoration note: Nineteen Indian Rajput-style

miniatures; borders of various colors; gold frames

Decoration Upper board outside:

Title: Binding

Form: Binding Label: This light brown leather binding has a green

onlaid central oval.

fol. 1b:

Title: Nata ragini

Form: Illustration

Label: This ragini is known in some sets as Sindhu

ragini.

fol. 2a:

Title: Karnata ragini (Kanada ragini)

Form: Illustration

fol. 2b:

Title: Sri raga

Form: Illustration

fol. 3a:

Title: Megha raga

Form: Illustration

fol. 3b:



Label: This page shows shikastah calligraphy after the

model of Mīrzā Ḥasan, dated Iṣfahān, Ramadan 1211

AH / 1796 CE.

fol. 4a:

Title: Todi ragini

Form: Illustration

fol. 4b:

Title: Asavari ragini

Form: Illustration


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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.669

Descriptive Title Album of Indian miniatures and Persian calligraphy

Text title Muraqqaʿ

Vernacular:

Note: Title supplied by cataloger

Abstract 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 visualizationsof 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.

Date Late 12th century AH / 18th CE -- 13th century AH / 19th CE

Origin India (Deccan)

Form AlbumGenre Historical

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Extent Foliation: 13

Dimensions 20.5 cm wide by 29.5 cm high

Written surface 13.5 cm wide by 21.0 cm high

Contents fols. 1b - 13a:

Title: Muraqqaʿ

Hand note: Written in shikastah calligraphy (fols. 3b,

7b, 8a, and 9b)


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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in

Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been

digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,

and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at

the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For

further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact

us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department

of Manuscripts.


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A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.669, Album

of Indian miniatures and Persian calligraphy

Title: Muraqqaʿ

Published by: The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

http://www.thewalters.org/

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