THE SALIHOTRA

SIGNED HAFIZ MUHAMMAD KHAN, INDIA, DATED TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER [18]79

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THE SALIHOTRA
SIGNED HAFIZ MUHAMMAD KHAN, INDIA, DATED TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER [18]79
'The coloured book of horses', a manuel on horses and horsemanship, Urdu manuscript on paper, 154ff. as numbered, each with 14ll. of loose black nasta'liq occasionally arranged in two columns, important words and phrases picked out in red, catchwords, copious illustrations of horses throughout, colophon dated in both the Islamic and Christian calendar, signed and giving the name of the patron as Wazir Khan, some staining, in marbled paper coloured binding with brown morocco spine, binding worn
Folio 12 3/8 x 8 3/8in. (31.2 x 21.1cm.)

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Lot Essay

Durgarasi, the son of Surgarasi was said to have composed the Salihotra for Mahmud of Ghazni. The text contains 125 drawings of thoroughbred horses, with observations on traits, illness and prescriptions for treatment. The work was translated into Sanskrit in the reign of Shah Jahan. Another copy of this manuscript is in the Khalili Collection (J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, Sydney, 2007, no.344, p.290).

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