File:A Hyderabadi painting of a scene from the story of Kalila and Dimna.jpg

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HYDERABAD, CENTRAL INDIA
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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English: A Hyderabadi painting of a scene from the story of Kalila and Dimna, 1700's

Source: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lfsearch/LotDescription.aspx?intObjectId=4892421 (downloaded Apr. 2007)

"BIDPAI: KALILA WA DIMNA, HYDERABAD, CENTRAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY. Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled buff paper, 29ff. with 10ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar divisions, margins in gold with black and blue rule, headings in red nasta'liq, with 25 miniatures in gouache heightened with gold, opening folio with gold and polychrome floral illumination, red leather binding, fitted box."
Date 1700
date QS:P571,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/hyderabad/paintings/paintings.html

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