Leaf from the Chingiznameh

MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1600

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Leaf from the Chingiznameh
Mughal India, circa 1600
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the bier of Hulagu Khan, surrounded by mourners, inscribed in red below outline and painting by Tulsi?, famous faces by .... (defaced), light flaking and tarnishing, mounted, verso with page of text, framed and glazed
Miniature: 13 x 8in. (33 x 20.2cm.)

Lot Essay

Rashid al-Din's famous history the Jami' al-Tawarikh was expanded by the Mughals under Akbar to become the Kitab-i Chingiznameh, stressing the Emperor's descent from the famous Mongol leader. The copying of the text was completed in 1596 and miniatures were added over the next few years. The largest portion of the manuscript is now in the Gulistan library in Tehran, a part of the booty brought to Iran by Nadir Shah after the sack of Delhi in 1739.
(For another mourning scene from this manuscript, Canby, S.R.: Princes, poets and paladins, London, 1998, p.122-3)

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