Rites and Festivals of Muslims and the main Hindu Castes

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Faizabad (made)

The Muslim cosmogony according to the commentaries of Massabi and Meschat. The world supported by an angel standing on a mountain of rubies, which is supported by a many horned white bull standing on a fish in water above sand and air.

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Categories	Albums Islam
Object type	Album page
Title	Rites and Festivals of Muslims and the main Hindu Castes (series title)
Materials and techniques	Watercolour
Brief description	Gentil; Manuscripts, Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca. 1774. Page number 34 (Gentil numbered two successive pages '22'). The Muslim cosmogony according to the commentaries of Massabi and Meschat. The text on the back of this page relates to the next image, IS.25:36-1980.
Physical description	The Muslim cosmogony according to the commentaries of Massabi and Meschat. The world supported by an angel standing on a mountain of rubies, which is supported by a many horned white bull standing on a fish in water above sand and air.
Dimensions	Length: 37cm Width: 53.5cm
Style	Company
Bibliographic reference	Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period. Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 122 p. ISBN 0944142303 Chanchal Dadlani, ‘Transporting India. The Gentil Album and Mughal Manuscript Culture’, Art History. 2025, pp. 748-761
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.25:35-1980

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O405295/rites-and-festivals-of-muslims-album-page-unknown/

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