Related art & calligraphy

Dohras (Songs) from the Kitab-i Nauras of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur (1570 to 1627); recto: From Dohras 36 and 40; verso: From Dohras 40 and 42

From Dohras (Songs) 40 and 42 from the Kitab-i Nauras (Book of Nine Essences) of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur (1570 to 1627) (verso)

From Dohras (Songs) 36 and 40, from the Kitab-i Nauras of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II (recto)

Shah Jahan holding a spinel and a long Deccan sword, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Babur receives booty and Humayun’s salute after the victory over Sultan Ibrahim in 1526, from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551 to 1602)

The king dreams of a lady, the personification of wealth, departing from him on account of his purchasing a bowl and a staff from a yogi, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-sixth Night

Madhava plays his vina before five women drawing water from a well, folio 3 from a Madhavanala-Kamakandala

Zulaykha in her palace and as an old woman with Joseph, from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414 to 1492); verso from a Panj Ganj of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414 to 1492), with two masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)