COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader Hindustani MS 1
Reference Number:
Hindustani MS 1
Parent Work Title:
Laur-Chanda
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Chandayan
Creator:
Maulana Daud of Dalmau
Creator Role:
Author
Date Created:
c1570
Description:
Bound in nineteenth-century leather flap binding, Chandayan is the most extensive extant manuscript (although is lacking beginning, end and some middle pages) with 286 minatures characteristed by a pastel palette, minimal underdrawing, infilling patterns drawn from fabric design, and extensive gold leaf. The text pages show a Persian section-caption in red ink, above five verses in chaupai rhyming couplets in two columns, with the final verse of each section, in longer doha metre, at the bottom of the page, all written in naskh script.
Language Code:
hin
Language:
Hindustani
Subject:
Hindustani literature
Subject:
Folktales of India
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Miniatures (paintings)
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Painting (image-making)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Creation Site:
India: Malwa
Item Height:
239 mm
Item Width:
148 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
'Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', Vol. 82, Nos. 2 and 3, 2000.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2016-02-12
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2016-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Educational Notes:
Exhibition: The Alchemy of Colour
Academic Project Lead:
Carol Burrows
Academic Project Lead:
Elaine Sheldon
Collection Code:
Rylands