Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c18.1.3

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These works are scattered among various museums, art galleries, libraries, and collections, but the principal ones are located as follows : In the British Museum there is a copy of the Bāburnāma, or Babur’s Memoirs (Or. 3714), and a Dārābnāma (Or. 4615); the latter is an edition of the Shāhnāma, or Book of Kings, prepared in the form of a series of stories by a writer of the name of Abu Tahir. The same institution also possesses a small volume by the poet Jami (Or. 1362 N.B. 36), and another minute manuscript catalogued as Grenville Or. 7573. Exhibited in the Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, is a series of one hundred and seventeen pictures from the Akbarnāma, or ‘History of Akbar’ (Clarke MSS.), as well as twenty-five illuminated pages from the celebrated copy of the Amir Hamzah, or ‘Story of Hamzah’ (No. 1513-1883, I.S.). Both manuscripts are included in Abu’l Fazl’s list in the A’in-i-Akbari. The Museum also displays a few illustrations from a fragmentary copy of the Bāburnāma (Waqi‘at-i-Babari, I.M. 262). Of the remaining large number of paintings which originally comprised the Amir Hamzah, sixty-one are in the Museum for Art and Industry at Vienna, and one or two stray leaves are preserved in other European collections. The Bodleian Library, Oxford, possesses a copy of Jami’s Bahāristan or ‘Season of Spring’ (Elliott 254), and the collection of Mr.