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Image Number:
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Bookreader PersianMS_10
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Reference Number:
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Persian MS 10
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Link to Catalogue:
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Parent Work Title:
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An album of calligraphy
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Creator:
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Muḥammad ‘Alī
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date Created:
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1785 [1200 AH]
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Description:
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This volume contains 40 mounted calligraphy specimens in various styles, chiefly by the celebrated Lucknow master Muḥammad ‘Alī, all mounted on elaborately painted margins. Swiss mercenary Colonel Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier (d. 1795) commissioned it as a gift to his friend Sir William Jones (d. 1794), in whose honour it contains an ode on folio 1a dated 1200 AH (1785–86 CE), the latest in the volume. The compositions and their arrangement both closely follow another album that Polier also intended for Jones, but kept by its courier Warren Hastings (d. 1818), now held in the National Art Library (MSL/1858/4765). In addition to Muḥammad ‘Alī, the volume also features specimens signed by Murīd Khān Ṭabāṭabā'
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Language Code:
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per
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Language:
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Persian
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Subject:
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Calligraphy, Persian
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Provenance:
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Bland, Nathaniel, 1803-1865, former owner
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Provenance:
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Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2022-05-24
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2022-06
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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