Do you know The Advetures of Hamza?

[Jens Nordlunde]

This is mostly for collectors of Indian weapons, but I also think that others may enjoy it.

It is a book made for Akbar when he was small - made mid 16th century.
It is a kind of a 'cartoon', showing a lot of the weapons used then, besides from telling an interesting story.
Why dont you try to Google on it.

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Indeed this is the Grimms fairy tale style exploit equivalent on steroids (with weapons!) illustrated and seen variously at https://www.google.com/search?q=the+...RGYyypEyhbM%3A

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

Indeed this is the Grimms fairy tale style exploit equivalent on steroids (with weapons!) illustrated and seen variously at https://www.google.com/search?q=the+...RGYyypEyhbM%3A

Cleaned up a bit.

Alamshah cleaving asunder the chain of the wheel, painting 46 from volume 11 of Akbar's Hamza-nama (Adventures of Hamza), 1560's - 1570's
Northern India, Mughal court, Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756)

[Jens Nordlunde]

Here is a detail from plate 83

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Akbar, the teenage emperor of northern India, was so enthralled by the epic he commissioned a group of Persian and Hindu artists to illustrate it and organise it into 14 enormous volumes, with approximately 1400 paintings.

The illustrations are painted on cotton and are huge, nearly one metre high. This massive artistic project took more than 100 artists, gilders, book binders and calligraphers 15 years to complete.
Shows Shahrashob Leads Hamza to Prison and Tul Mast Recognises the Amir from His Room in the Caravanserai of Baba Junayd, c.1557-1572.

Illustration from the Hamzanama Mughal c.1557-1572. © MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art.

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

What is also interesting is the display of weapons used in the vast battle scenes...Below;From Wikepedia Quote "This large-scale painting depicts the Battle of Mazandaran. It is number 38 in the 7th volume of the Hamzanama, as inscribed between the legs of the man in the bottom center. It depicts a battle scene in which the protagonists Khwajah 'Umar and Hamzah and their armies engage in fierce battle. Originally, the faces were depicted; these were subsequently erased by iconoclasts, and repainted in more recent times. text on verso." Unquote.