An Illuminated Folio from the Royal Manuscript of the Farhang-i Jahangiri (verso) (1607–8): Art, History and Details

An Illuminated Folio from the Royal Manuscript of the Farhang-i Jahangiri (verso) (1607–8) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Farhang-i Jahāngīrī, one of the most complete and authoritative dictionaries of the Persian language, was compiled by Mir Jamal al-Din Husayn Inju. It took him 12 years to compile over 9,000 words with definitions and examples from verses by Persian poets. He was born in Shiraz, Iran, but lived most of his life in Agra, India, so the dictionary was named honor of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, who reigned from 1605 to 1627.

Object facts

• Title: An Illuminated Folio from the Royal Manuscript of the Farhang-i Jahangiri (verso)
• Date: 1607–8
• Culture: Mughal India, court of Jahangir (1605–1627)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
• Dimensions: Page: 33.7 x 21.9 cm (13 1/4 x 8 5/8 in.); Text field: 21.2 x 11 cm (8 3/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
• Collection: Indian Art - Mughal
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 2013.318.b

Collection credit

Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: D Giles Limited, 2016.

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