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Information about this record
| Title: |
[Rāgamālā] [manuscript].
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| Origin: |
[India], A.H. 1214-1219 (1799-1804)
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| Physical description: |
43 leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 362 x 250 (290 x 198) mm. bound to 367 x 260 mm.
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| Summary: |
Text on the modes of Indian music, with visual representations of each mode as a male Raga with between four and six female
Raginis. The selection and sequence of Ragas and Raginis is according to the Hanuman system and the iconographic tradition
of the images is that of Amber in Rajasthan. Other miniatures depict scenes at court. The text is followed by a commentary.
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| Notes: |
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, iv (19th-century paper) + 43 + iv (19th-century paper); 1⁸ 2² 3⁸ 4⁴ 5¹² 6⁸(+1); early foliation in ink
(f. 2-24), 2-8, 11-12, 9-10, 13-24, lower center recto; modern foliation in pencil, [1-43], upper left recto. References
in this record are to the modern foliation. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 4 columns of 19 lines; text block enclosed in narrow frame of silver and double lines in red ink, outer
edge of margins delineated with single line of red ink..
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script in black and red ink by a single hand.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v) and 52 miniatures: 14 scenes of rulers or nobles (f. 2r-8r, 18r-24r), 1 of a lute
(f. 5r), 36 of families of Ragas and Raginis (f. 8r-17r), and 1 group of 6 small landscapes (f. 17v).
Binding: 19th-century gilt morocco.
Origin: Written in the Deccan region of India, probably in one of the feudatory states of the Nizam of Hyderabad (pictured
on f. 2r), in 1799 (f. 24v, 43v), with the miniatures added by 1804 (dated signature, f. 24r).
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| Cite as: |
UPenn LJS 63
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| Manuscript location: |
Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania LJS 63
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