Ni'matnāmah Naṣir al-Dīn Shāhī

After the fall of Mandu to the Mughals, the manuscript eventually found its way to the Bijapur in the 1600s, as shown by a seal of Muḥammad 'Adil Shāh on the flyleaf.

The book provided a complete facsimile of the manuscript’s folios and detailed study of the terms for flora, fauna, food and other substances, with their modern and Latin equivalents.

[4] The Ni'matnāmah was first published from the art historical point of view in 1959 by Robert Skelton (1929–2022), a life-long curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

[6] These artists emphasized different features of Turkman style of Shirazi painting that was contemporary at that time.

The illustrations also introduced representations of indigenous costumes of Malwa and Indian facial types.