Explanation

The Hamzanama (about 1,400 large paintings on cloth), the Razmnama (the Persian Mahabharata) and the Baburnama (the Persian translation of Babur's memoirs) were all major illustrated-manuscript projects of Akbar's imperial atelier. The Tarikh-i-Alfi, Mulla Daud's history of the Islamic millennium commissioned by Akbar, was primarily a textual chronicle and was not produced as an illustrated court manuscript in the same vein. The book not illustrated with paintings in Akbar's court is therefore the Tarikh-i-Alfi, option (D).