Publication Date
Approximately 1020 - 50 AH / 1612 - 40 AD
Publication Place
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Chester Beatty Library
Subject
Colored pigments and gold on paper
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
38.9 × 27.2 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
CBL In 07A
Record ID
object;EPM;ir;Mus21;43;ar
Library Location
Chester Beatty Library
Date
Approximately 1020 - 50 AH / 1612 - 40 AD
Notes
The Minto Album is a collection of forty pages that are now scattered and divided between the Chester Beatty Library (nineteen pages) and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (twenty-one). It contains some of the most beautiful Mughal paintings ever produced and consists mainly of standing portraits of emperors and other important people at court. The paintings included here are of Janjir (r. 1605-27) holding a ball and Shah Jahan (r. 1627-58) in orange, a spiritual guide of the Mughals and a religious scholar identified in an inscription as Muhammad Reza Kashmiri. The gorgeous floral borders surrounding each panel are as breathtaking as the panels themselves.
Sample Text
“Minto Album” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;ir;Mus21;43;ar
