Persian MS 28 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Decoration

Sixteen miniatures, probably of the mid 16th century. Noteworthy features include the form of turban worn by the male characters, the prominence given to tigers in the animal scenes, a fondness for mauve and yellow and non-Persian forms of thrones, crowns, swords, interior architecture, tents, the sun, moon and sky. The spindly trees are also characteristic of Western Indian manuscripts and are without parallel sixteenth-century Persian miniatures. These characteristics seem to point to somewhere in non-Mughal India in the mid-sixteenth century. Remains of fine illuminated heading at the beginning of the text (central panel lost and later replaced) and intercolumnar band of fine illumination.