CONTENTS: Editors' preface and acknowledgements, THREE MEMOIRS: * Robert Skelton-Pramod Chandra, George P Bickford (Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Harvard University) * Travels with Robert-Simon Digby, Historian of Medieval India, * Generous Mr Skelton: Reminiscences of a Yankee anglophile senior citizen-Stuart Cary Welch (Curator Emeritus, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art, The Harvard University Art Museums) * Select bibliography of Robert Skelton's writings, ESSAYS: * A Leaf of the Qissa-i Amir Hamza in the University of Virginia Art Museum and some thoughts on early Mughal painting-Daniel Ehnbom (Associate Professor, The McLntire Department of Art, The University of Virginia) * Zal in the Simurgh's Nest: A Painting by Mir Sayyid 'Ali for a Shahnama Illustrated for Emperor Humayun-Stuart Cary Welch, (Curator Emeritus, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art, The Harvard University Art Museums) * Pages from an Akbarnama-Linda York Leach (Independent scholar) * An Akbar-period Devi Mahatmya? Notes on a group of paintings of the Great Goddess-B N Goswamy (Professor Emeritus of History of Art, Panjab University, Chandigarh) * Notes on four illustrations of the Birla Razmnama and their counterparts in other Razmnama manuscripts-Asok Kumar Das (Former Director, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur and Satyajit Ray Chair, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan) * Three paintings by Abu'l Hasan in a manuscript of the Bustan of Sa'di-Terence McInerney, (Independent Scholar) * The Walters Art Museum Diwan of Amir Hasan Dihlawi and Salim's atelier at Allahabad-John Seyller (Professor of Art History, University of Vermont) * Jahangir's Album: Some clarifications-Milo Cleveland Beach (Former Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC) * A Painting from the Jahangirnama and its compositional parallels with an engraving from the Evangelicae Historiae Imagines-Friederike Weis, Ph.D Student (Freie Universitat, Berlin) * 'Far from the arte of painting': An English amateur artist at the court of Jahangir-Susan Stronge (Senior Curator, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London) * On the borders: Apossible source for naturalistic floral decoration at the Mughal court-Barbara Brend, (Independent scholar) * Architectural relics of the Catholic missionary era in Mughal India-Gauvin Alexander Bailey (Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts) * The 'Moghuleries' of the Millionenzimmer, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna-Ebba Koch (Professor of Asian Art, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna) * The treasury of Sultan Bahadur of Gujarat: Notes fro the study of northern Indian Jewellery in the sixteenth century-Nuno Vassallo E Silva (Deputy Director, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon) * A lacquer pen-box by Manohar: An example of late Safavid-style painting in India-Navina N Haidar Haykel (Assistant Curator, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), * The kundan technique: The Indian jeweller's unique artistic treasure-Manuel Keene (Curator, Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait) * 'Le Tapis Moghol': A Seventeenth century Deccani kalamkari-Rosemary Crill (Senior Curator, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London) * A Group of painted panels from Jaisalmer-Rai Anand Krishna (Former Director, Bharat Kala Bhavan, Varanasi) * Imkperial Mughal tolerance of Jainism and Jain painting activity in Gujarat-Shridhar Andhare (Former Director, L D Museum of Indology and N C Mehta Gallery, Ahmedabad) * Mughalized portraits of Bilaspur royalty in the second half of the seventeenth century-Catherine Glynn (Iindependent Scholar) * The Kalavants on their durrie: Portraits of Udaipur court musicians, 1680-1730-Andrew Topsfield (Senior Assistant Keeper, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), * Mural paintings of the Krishnalila at Karwar-Joachim K Bautze (Professor, Faculty of Representational Studies, Department of Image-Cultures, Wako University, Tokyo) * The cartography of power: Mapping genres in Jodhpur painting-Debra Diamond (Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Washington, D C) * The Delhi Palace in 1846: A Panoramic view by Mazhar 'Ali Khan-J P Losty (Head of Prints, Drawings and Photoraphy Section, Asia Pacific and Africa Collections, The British Library).