The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami British Library, Or. 12208 is a lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Khamsa or "five poems" of Nizami Ganjavi, a 12th-century Persian poet, which was crea
Detail of the added miniature by Daulat showing him (left) painting the calligrapher of the manuscript, Abd al-Rahim
Farhad Before Khusraw, one of the Walters' pages
The Death of Darius, by Dharm Das, another Walters page
Bim Gujarati, Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis
Abd al-Samad
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'Abd al-Ṣamad or Khwaja 'Abd-us-Ṣamad Shirazi, was a 16th century painter of Persian miniatures who moved to India and became one of the founding masters of the Mughal miniature tradition, and later t
Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208)
…most of them apparently Hindus, though the main artist, Khvaja Abd-al Samad, is Muslim. One miniature, of Khusraw hunting, is the latest known work of Abd al-Samad, former head of the imperial workshop and one of the artists Humayun had brought from Persia some forty-five years earlier, at the start of the Mughal…
Barbad Plays for Khusraw, Khamsa of Nizami, British Library, Oriental 2265, 1539–43, inscribed Mirza Ali at bottom left.
The earliest known example of a Mughal painting, Princes of the House of, Timur (c. 1550–55), is attributed to Abd al-Samad. It was probably executed for Humayun, and added to under later emperors to update the family tree. Painted with gouache and gold on fine cotton fabric. British Museum
Jamshid writing on a rock, by Abd al-Samad in 1588
Arghan Div Brings the Chest of Armour to Hamza, from Volume 7 of the Hamzanama, supervised by Samad.