This Article First Appeared In The Scroll On August 23, 2023
One of the British Library’s most treasured manuscripts on display in its current exhibition Animals: Art, Science and Sound is a late 16th century copy of the Mughal emperor Babur’s autobiographical memoirs, Vāqiʻāt-i Bāburī, more often referred to as his Bāburnāmah (Book of Babur).