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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:
Title: Shikastah calligraphy
Form: Calligraphy page
fol. 8b:
Title: Bhairava raga
Form: Illustration
Label: This is possibly Vasanta ragini.
fol. 9a:
Title: Madhumadhavi ragini
Form: Illustration
fol. 9b:
Title: Shikastah calligraphy
Form: Calligraphy page
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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:
Title: Shikastah calligraphy
Form: Calligraphy page
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/