MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1595-1600

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MIRANSHAH CROSSES THE TIGRIS WHILE TIMUR STANDS ON THE OTHER BANK
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1595-1600
Folio 246 from the Royal Mughal Zafarnama of Yazdi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, 2ll. of black nasta'liq above and below, gold and polychrome rules, plain paper margins, the reverse with 16ll. black nasta'liq
Painting 6 3⁄8 x 4in. (16.1 x 10.2cm.); text panel 7 5⁄8 x 4 1/8in. (19.5 x 11.1cm.); folio 11 x 7 7/8in. (28 x 20.1cm.)

Provenance

Family Collection, by descent to the current owner, almost certainly from before 1900
In the UK since the 1970s

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Lot Essay

Timur entered Baghdad on 21 Shawwal AH 795⁄30 August 1393 AD, by which time the ruler, Sultan Ahmad Jalayir, had already fled. Timur crossed the Tigris in the sultan’s royal barge while his son Miranshah crossed it at a place called Qaryat al-‘Uqab (for a translation of this episode, see Cherefeddin Ali (Sharaf al-Din ‘Ali Yazdi), The History of Timur Bec, 2 vols., London 1723, vol.1, p.433).

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