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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Qurʼān] Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by "Ibn ʻAlī". Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Text proceeded by 2 lithographed fragments pasted front and back; the second one, facing first page of manuscript, is lithograph of Sūrat al-fātiḥah from unidentified edition of the Qurʼān....- Date: 1695
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialTuḥfat al-salāt
تحفة الصلوات | Kitāb tuḥfat al-ṣalāt Treatise in eight chapters on ritual prayer.- Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb-i Majālis al-muʼminīn
کتاب مجالس المؤمنين Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Ibn Murād al-Ḥusaynī Muḥammad Zamān. Probably written in Iran. Paper; unpolished, slightly yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, light blue, red and dark blue; title in red in gold cartouche; text on fol. 1b-2a has interlinear gold design; text enclosed in ruled border...- Contributor: Shushtarī, Nūr Allāh Ibn ʻabd Allāh
- Date: 1658
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDurrat al-tāj
درة التاج Shiite prayer book; consists of prayers to be said on the visitation of Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib's tomb. This manuscript of Durrat al-tāj (The crown jewel) is a Shiite prayer book, consisting of prayers to be said when making a visitation to the tomb of Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (circa 601-61). 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib is one of the most revered religious...- Contributor: Ibn Rustam Khān Ṣafī Qulī
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAz̲ān-i ṣuḥb
اذان صبح Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of A.A. Kachif, Nov. 20, 1930. Written in Iran. Paper; thick, polished light cream color paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue, red, and white with wide borders of a similar floral pattern and similar colors of fol. 1b and 2a; an outer border of two very thin lines accompanies all...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialZubūr Āl Muḥammad
زبور آل محمد | Zubūr Ahl al-Bayt | Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah | Zābūr Āl Muḥammad, 1064 A.H., Ad'iyah wa-mawāiẓ | Also known as: Zubūr Ahl al-Bayt | Also known as: Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah | Title on container: Zābūr Āl Muḥammad, 1064 A.H., Ad'iyah wa-mawāiẓ Collection of doxologies and prayers, ascribed to ʻAlī or to his grandson Zayn al-ʻĀbidin ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn- Contributor: Zayn Al-ʻābidīn ʻalī Ibn Al-Ḥusayn - ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
- Date: 1654
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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Mujallad al-avval min kalām Mīr Khvand ʻalayhi al-raḥmah
المجلد الاول من كلام مير خوند عليه الرحمة Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in India. Paper; thin, polished laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; both sections have almost identical carpet pages with floral unwan in gold, blue, reddish orange and white, with titles in white in gold cartouche, carpet pages have elaborate floral design in margins; text enclosed in a ruled...- Contributor: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad Ibn Khāvandshāh
- Date: 1625
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPādishāhnāmah.
پادشاهنامه Contains a biography of Shāhjahān from his birth through the first 10 years of his reign by Qazvīnī. This work is followed by the second and third parts of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh's ʻAmāl-i Ṣāliḥ's history, starting with the 11th year of Shāhjahān's reign and including the wars of succession and his death. Cf, the similar composite manuscript ms. no. 566 in Bankipore, Bengal. Oriental...- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh - Muqīm, Muḥammad - Muḥammad Amīn Ibn Abī Al-Ḥusayn Qazvīnī
- Date: 1650
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialĪn kitāb-i Kanz-i daqāʼiq
اين كتاب كنز دقائق | Kanz al-daqāʼiq | Tarjumah-i Kanz al-daqāʼiq Persian translation of Nasafī's Kanz al-daqāʼiq.- Contributor: Kirmāni, Naṣr Al-Dīn Ibn Muḥammad - Jamāl Muḥammad Valad-I Muḥammad Ashraf - Nasafī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad
- Date: 1626
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Calligrapher's sample book.]
Huwa al-rashīd Calligrapher's sample book.- Contributor: Daylamī, ʻabd Al-Rashīd
- Date: 1650
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[ʻArūz̤-i] Mawlānā Jāmī ; Qāfiyah-ʼi Mawlānā Jāmī ; [Anonymous...
[عروض] مولانا جامى ؛ قافية مولانا جامى This Persian manuscript dated 1025 AH (1616) contains two works on prosody by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān Jāmī (1414-92), as well as an incomplete, anonymous work on astronomy. Jāmī was a great poet, scholar, and mystic who lived most of his life in Herat, present-day Afghanistan. The 69 leaves of the manuscript are on a variety of papers: thin, pink-colored laid paper (folios 1a-31b);...- Contributor: Jāmī
- Date: 1616
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Gulistān]
[گلستان] Manuscript. Persian. Title determined by comparison with editions of Saʻdī's Gulistān. Written by ʻAbd al-Bārī Muḥammad Maḥmūd Lārī. Probably written in Iran. Date from colophon written in pencil in a later hand. Paper: cream colored lighly polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; unwan in gold, blue, red, white and green; text enclosed blue and gold ruled border; black ink with rubrication;...- Contributor: Saʻdī - Lārī, ʻabd Al-Bārī Muḥammad Maḥmūd
- Date: 1602
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDīvān-i Shāhī
ديوان شاهي Collected poems of Amīr Shāhī Sabzavarī. Dīvān-i Shāhī (Collection of poems by Shāhī) is a divan (collection) of verse by Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (died 1453; 857 A.H.), a prominent Persian poet of the Timurid era who composed in many of the classical forms of Persian poetry. Amīr Shāhī's poetry belongs to the tradition of Persian mystical love poetry. The collection includes poems composed in...- Contributor: Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī - Ṣadafī, Muṣṭafá
- Date: 1600
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialShah-nameh by Firdausi Shahnameh (Book of kings) was composed by the revered Iranian poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940-1020). The book recounts in verse the mythological history of ancient Persia and tales of the famous heroes and personalities of Iranian history, from legendary times to the 7th-century reign of Yazdegerd III, the last king of the Sassanid dynasty. Considered the national epic of Iran, the book was widely...- Contributor: Firdawsī
- Date: 1600
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMuntakhab-i Shāhʹnāmah-i Ḥakīm Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī, ʻalayhi...
منتخب شاهنامه حكيم ابو قاسم فردوسى، عليه الرحمة و المغفرة Selections from the Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī. This manuscript from the early 17th century contains selections from the Shāhnāmeh (Book of kings), the epic-historical work of Persian literature composed at the end of the tenth century by the poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940-1020). This beloved epic of pre-Islamic Persia (present-day Iran) was widely read in Persia, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. The manuscript contains three half-page...- Contributor: Firdawsī
- Date: 1618
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialḤāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī
حافظ شيرازي | Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī | fiẓ Shīrāzī The poems of Ḥafiẓ.- Contributor: Persian Manuscript Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥāfiẓ - Fiẓ
- Date: 1600
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Selections from Ḥāfiẓ by the calligrapher ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-... Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Colophon: ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī. Written in India. Paper; thick, cream color oriental paper; black ink; decorated unwan on fol. 1b in blue and gold; six lines to the page; text of each line in text-box alternatingly aligned right and left; entire text within an outer gold border near the page edges; and a second smaller gold border surrounding...- Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ - Daylamī, ʻabd Al-Rashīd
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialḤikāyat-i Sayf al-Mulūk va Badīʻ al-Jamāl
حكايت سيف الملوك و بديع الجمال | Qiṣṣah-i Sayf al-Mulūk va Badīʻ al-Jamāl Tale of Sayf al-Mulūk and Badiʼʻ al-Jamāl, also recorded in an Arabic version in the Arabian Nights.- Date: 1625
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKhāvarānʹnāmah
خاوراننامه Long poem on the Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.- Contributor: Ibn Ḥusām, Muḥammad
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSubḥat al-abrār
سبحة الابرار | Sohbo alabrar Manuscript. Persian. Title from unwan. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in Iran or India. Paper: cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan and gold highlighting between lines of text on first two leaves; black ink with red section titles; blue and gold borders; few marginal corrections and additions; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq; 12 lines in written area...- Contributor: Jāmī
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialYūsuf va Zulaykhā min taṣnīf-i Ḥaz̤rat Mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān-...
يوسف و زليخا من تصنيف حضرت مولانا عبد الرحمان جامي Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in India. Paper; dark cream-color unpolished, coarse laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; severely worm damaged; no borders; black ink with some rubrication. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 18 x 11 cm. Folio 1b-136b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M40. Dark brown leather binding; text partially disbound; poor condition. Also...- Contributor: Jāmī
- Date: 1643
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDīvān-i Kalīm
ديوان كليم | Díván-i Kelím Abū Ṭālib Kalīm Hamadānī (or Kāshānī, died 1651; 1061 A.H.) was one of the foremost Persian poets of the 17th century. He was born in Hamadan (present-day Iran) but appears to have lived in Kashan (also in Iran) for a sizeable portion of his life--hence the appellation Kāshānī. He received his education in Kashan and in Shiraz before moving to India to serve the...- Contributor: Kalīm, Abū Ṭālib
- Date: 1695
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Khamsah]
[خمسة] | Khamseh : lyric and romantic poems Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied from container. Scribe not identified. Written in India? Paper; thin, lightly polished laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral carpet page in blue, gold, pink, and black surrounded by three borders: the outer of a gold floral design, the next of a repeating design in blue and gold and the inner of...- Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQāḍīʹzādah ʻalá al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah
قاضي زادة على الملخص في الهيئة A commentary on al-Jighmīnī's book on astronomy, al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah. The author of this commentary, Ṣalāh al-Din Musa ibn Muḥammad, also known as Qādī Zāda (the son of the judge), was born in Bursa (present-day Turkey) in 1364 and died in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) in 1436. His first teacher, al-Fanāri, suggested that he move to the scientific centers of the time, Herat in Khorasan...- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Salīm, Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá Ibn Muḥammad - ʻabd, Muḥammad Riḍā
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSiyah Mashq Qajar era Siyah Mashq Calligraphy based on Nasta'liq script 19th cent. Shekastah (Broken) Script. A number of other siyah mashq sheets are held in the Library of Congress. See in particular 1-84-154.44, 1-87-154.45, 1-84-154.46, 1-85-154.88, 1-87-154.142. A number of siyah mashq sheets executed at the turn of the 17th century by the great Iranian master of nasta'liq script, 'Imad al-Hasani (d. 1024/1615), were decorated...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPoetic verses offering advice Safavid era Persian poetic verses offering advice, written in black Nasta'liq script tending towards shikastah (Shekasteh) script. Although the fragment is neither dated nor signed, the script and the fragility of the paper suggest that the text was executed in Iran or India during the 17th-18th centuries. Papers used at an earlier period were thicker and less prone to worm damage. Dimensions of Written...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPetition to a ruler A Persian literary compositions (munsha'at) in praise of ruler. Written in Indian ta'liq script. Dimensions of Written Surface: 12.4 (w) x 19.7 (h) cm The composition is executed in black Indian ta'liq script framed by cloud bands on a beige paper. The ink from another calligraphic fragment, formerly contained in the same album of calligraphies, seems to have bled onto this piece. Several lines...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed Material1st Page of Sa'di's Bustan Opening page of Sa'di's "Bustan" (The Orchard). From India written in the Nasta'liq script by 'Abd al-Rashid Daylami at the Mughal court for Shah Jahan (r. 1627-1656). Either Agra and Delhi. As in this case, the first page of a Persian poetical text is easily recognizable, as it is provided with an ornamental panel at the top (sarloh) and the main text usually is...- Contributor: Abd Al-Rashid Daylami
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGhazals by Sa'di Ghazals (Odes) by Sa'di, love poetry in Persian, written in the Shikastah-Nasta'liq script by calligrapher, 'Abd al-Majid from 17th Cent. in Isfahan, Iran. A number of works signed by 'Abd al-Majid in Iranian collections bear similarities to the fragment in the Library of Congress. These typically are executed in black shikastah or shikastah- nasta'liq and are framed by gold cloud bands (see Tavoosi 1987:...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialNew Year's (Noruz) poem New Year's (Nowruz) quatrain, or ruba'I in Persian, by the calligrapher Agha'I written in black Nasta'liq script from Iran or India. Dimensions of Written Surface: 9 (w) x 15.8 (h) cm For you, Pride of Government and Religion / May happiness be your aide and may fortune be beside you. / Congratulations to you on the festival of New Year's / May you always...- Contributor: Agha'i
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPage from an unidentified text Unidentified Persian text fragment about the futility of the world, written in the Nasta'liq script in Iran or India, 17th or 18th century. Dimensions of Written Surface: 5.4 (w) x 12 (h) cm The recto and verso of his calligraphic fragment contains portions of an unidentified Persian text about the futility of the world. The text continues on the fragment's verso (1-04-713.19.6 V) which...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDecorative borders Mughal style decorative borders with verses composed by the famous Persian poet Hafiz (d. 791/1388-9). Written Nasta'liq script in the 17th Cent. Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto: 11.4 (w) x 19.5 (h) cm. Dimensions of Written Surface: Verso: 13 (w) x 19.5 (h) cm Hafiz warns of the transience and fickleness of this world (literally, an old hag or 'ajuza), and argues that those...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialOn the lovers' passion An anecdotal calligraphic piece in Persian: On the lovers' passion, attributed to Arab prose writer al-Jahiz (d. 255/869). Writen in Shikastah-Nasta'liq script in Iran during the 17th or 18th century. Dimensions of Written Surface: 9.5 (w) x 17.5 (h) cm The fragment appears signed in the upper left corner; however, the signature is too small to be legible. The layout of the composition and...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialVerses in Persian and Chaghatay Poetry written in nasta'liq script in Persian & Chaghatay Turkish (Central Asian Turkish). Persian poems by Sa'di (d. 691/1292) Chaghatay poems by Mir 'Ali Shir Nava'i (d. 1501), Patron: Husayn Bayqara (r. 1470-1506) Timurid era. Dimensions of Written Surface: 15.1 (w) x 24 (h) cm In the central text panel, verses in Chaghatay Turkish are written in black nasta'liq script on a beige paper...- Date: 1600
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter exercises Letter exercises, siyah mashq or calligraphic practice sheet written in Persian cursive nasta'liq script by Iranian calligrapher, Mir 'Imad al-Hasani (d. 1024/1615). Safavid era. A number of other siyah mashq sheets are held in the Library of Congress. See in particular 1-84-154.44, 1-84-154.46, 1-85-154.88, 1-86-154.144, 1-87-154.45, and 1-87-154.142. Dimensions of Written Surface: 17.6 (w) x 31.7 (h) cm These kinds of sheets -- known...- Contributor: Mir 'Imad Al-Hasani
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQuatrain praising vision Quatrain praising vision written in Nasta'liq script by the writer (al-katib) Mas'ud al-Tabib who traveled through, Iran, Afghanistan to India. Dil jaya gham u dida makan-i gawhar ast / Ya'ni gawhar-i vasl-i tu dar chasm tar ast / Dar dil gham u dar dida khayal-i tu dar ast / Zan ruy za dil dida am abadtar ast Dimensions of Written Surface: 15.9 (w) cm...- Contributor: Mas'ud Al-Tabib
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialA friend's letter A letter composed for a friend, in Persian written in shikastah-nasta'liq script with four bayts (verses) of a lyrical poem (ghazal) from Firdawsi's "Shahnamah" from 19th Cent Iran. Dimensions of Written Surface: 5.8 (h) x 11.9 (w) cm The text is written in small black shikastah-nasta'liq script on a piece of paper painted in light brown in such a manner that it looks like...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQuatrain for the loved one Persian quatrain, or ruba'i, describing competition for the loved one, in black Nasta'liq script by the calligrapher Hasan Shamlu (d. ca.1666-7) Iran. An kas ka bi-dast jam darad / 'Aysh u tarab-i mudam darad / Ma u may u zahidan u taqva / Ta yar sar-i kudam darad Dimensions of Written Surface: 8.3 (w) x 16 (h) cm That person who holds a glass...- Contributor: Hasan Shamlu
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQuatrain on reaching divine unity A Persian quatrain, or ruba'i, on spiritual transformation, written by calligrapher (Mir) 'Imad al-Hasani written in Nasta'liq script, from Safavid Persia. Below the quatrain, the calligrapher (Mir) 'Imad al-Hasani has signed his work with his name and a request for God's forgiveness. Mir 'Imad (d. 1615) was born in 1552, spent time in Herat and Qazvin, and finally settled in Isfahan (then capital of...- Contributor: Imad Al-Hasani
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSafinah fragment Opening page of an iluminated album in a longitudinal shape (safinah), by calligrapher 'Imad al-Hasani al-Katib from Safavid era Persia. Around the vertical border of the text panel, the calligrapher (Mir) 'Imad al-Hasani al-Katib ("the writer") has signed his work along with a request for God's forgiveness. Mir 'Imad (d. 1615) was born in 1552, spent time in Herat and Qazvin, and finally settled...- Contributor: Imad Al-Hasani Al-Katib
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMufradat exercises Illuminated carpet page of letter (mufradat) exercises on three horizontal lines and Persian poetic excerpts from Timurid and Safavid era Iran. Albums of mufradat exercises include the single letters (al-huruf al-mufradah or, in the Ottoman tradition, huruf-i muqatta'a) of the Arabic alphabet in sequence, followed by letters in their composite form (in the Turkish tradition, murekkebe, lit. "pairs"). Exercise books begin at least by...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMufradat exercises Illuminated carpet page of letter (mufradat) exercises on three horizontal lines and Persian poetic excerpts, common in Safavid and Ottoman lands. Albums of mufradat exercises include the single letters (al-huruf al-mufradah or, in the Ottoman tradition, huruf-i muqatta'a) of the Arabic alphabet in sequence, followed by letters in their composite form (in the Turkish tradition, murekkebe, lit. "pairs"). Exercise books begin at least by...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialProtocol of address Collection of literary compositions (munsha'at) on appropriate praises to a ruler, written in Indian ta'liq script during the 17th and 18th centuries. Dimensions of Written Surface: 12.5 (w) x 24.8 (h) cm Executed in black Indian ta'liq, the text is outlined in gold cloud bands on a beige paper. The background is decorated with delicate flower and vine motifs painted in gold. In the...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPage from the "Farhang-i Jahangiri" Page from "Farhang-i Jahangiri" a Persian-language dictionary by Jamal al-Din Husayn b. Fakhr al-Din Hasan Inju Shirazi, from 1619 in Nasta'liq script Mughal and Safavid courts. A marginal gloss cross-referenced to the main text with the number 4 appears in the center and outside the right vertical purple frame. This gloss offers additional comments and poetical excerpts on one of the words listed in...- Date: 1619
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialIlluminated first page / identification note of the "Farhang-... Illuminated first page from "Farhang-i Jahangiri" a Persian-language dictionary by Jamal al-Din Husayn b. Fakhr al-Din Hasan Inju Shirazi, from 1619 in Nasta'liq. Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto: 11 (w) x 11.8 (h) cm. Dimensions of Written Surface: Verso: 13.5 (w) x 3.5 (h) cm The author of this Persian-language farhang (dictionary) was Jamal al-Din Husayn b. Fakhr al-Din Hasan Inju Shirazi (d. 1035/1626),...- Date: 1619
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMoral lesson (hikayat) on friendship An excerpt from Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) "Gulistan" (The Rose Garden), with anecdotal stories (hikayat), written in black Shikastah-Nasta'liq Script in 17th-18th Cent. Iran. Calligraphic sheets written in shikastah-nasta'liq script similar to this fragment were produced in Iran during the 17th and 18th centuries. Dimensions of Written Surface: 10.5 (w) x 13.6 (h) cm The text is executed in black shikastah-nasta'liq on a cream-colored paper....- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialStanding woman and a ghazal of Hafiz Standing woman and a ghazal of Hafiz, paintings produced in Safavid Isfahan, Iran, during the 17th century. Dimensions of Written Surface: 12.2 (w) x 19.2 (h) cm For comparative paintings, see Sheila Canby, "The Life and Work of the Painter Riza" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981). It appears that the poem is linked to the painting it contains, which depicts a beautiful young...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPage from the "Farhang-i Jahangiri" Page from "Farhang-i Jahangiri" a Persian-language dictionary by Jamal al-Din Husayn b. Fakhr al-Din Hasan Inju Shirazi, from 1619 in Nasta'liq script Mughal and Safavid courts. Dimensions of Written Surface: 20.8 (w) x 21.5 (h) cm Marginal glosses cross-referenced to the main text with numbers appear on the left and outside the dark purple vertical text frame containing gold flowers and vines. These notes...- Date: 1619
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPage from the "Farhang-i Jahangiri" Page from "Farhang-i Jahangiri" a Persian-language dictionary by Jamal al-Din Husayn b. Fakhr al-Din Hasan Inju Shirazi, from 1619 in Nasta'liq script Mughal and Safavid courts. Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto: 10.7 (w) x 22 (h) cm. Dimensions of Written Surface: Verso: 10.8 (w) x 21.4 (h) cm On recto and verso the author includes an essay on the Persian language, its dialects, a...- Date: 1619
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQuatrain of Kamal al-Din Isma'il Quatrain of Kamal al-Din Isma'il (d. 634/1237), written by calligrapher 'Imad al-Hasani active in Safavid Persia and Mughal India. An zulf nagar bar rukh-i an shuhra sanam / Avikhta bi jang u khusumat dar ham / Va an abru bin basan-i gushti giran / Sar suya sar avarda u qadha zada kham Dimensions of Written Surface: 9.8 (w) x 19.4 (h) cm Look at...- Contributor: Imad Al-Hasani
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialVerses by Jami Persian verses by the poet Jami (d. 898/1492), written in Nasta'liq script by calligrapher Hajji Yadigar al-Katib, active in 17th Cent Mughal India. Basa ziba rukh-i niku shamayil / Ka suyash tab'-i mardum nist mayil / Basa luli vash-i shirin karashma / Ka rizad khun za dilha chasma chasma Dimensions of Written Surface: 10.1 (w) x 18.9 (h) cm How often there is a...- Contributor: Hajji Yadigar Al-Katib
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQuatrain eulogizing a king Persian quatrain eulogizing a king, written in black Nasta'liq script by the calligrapher Rukn al-Din Mas'ud al-Tabib during the 17th Cent. Dimensions of Written Surface: 12.5 (w) x 23.5 (h) cm In the lower left corner, the calligrapher Rukn al-Din Mas'ud al-Tabib states that he has copied the text (namaqahu) and asks God to forgive his shortcomings. Rukn al-Din was nicknamed al-Tabib ("the doctor")...- Contributor: Rukn Al-Din Mas'ud Al-Tabib
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMuraqqa' of Poetical Excerpts An Muraqqa' of calligraphies with several Persian poetry verses, written in black Nasta'liq script by the calligapher Mirza Quli Mayli during the 17th-18 cent Iran. Dimensions of Written Surface: 11.5 (w) x 19.2 (h) cm In the center of the text panel appears one iambic pentameter quatrain, or ruba'i, and two verses (tak bayt) by the Deccani poet Shaykh Fayzi Hindi. The quatrain reads:...- Contributor: Mirza Quli Mayli
- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialExcerpt from Sa'di's "Gulistan" Excerpt from Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) "Gulistan" (The Rose Garden), written in black Nasta'liq script from 17th-18th cents. Mughal India. Dimensions of Written Surface: 13 (w) x 20.3 (h) cm The calligraphic specimen is neither dated nor signed. However, the decorative pattern and the style of the folio resemble folios inserted into albums produced during the 17th and 18th centuries in Mughal India. The text...- Date: 16??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQuatrain on true knowledge Persian quatrain on true knowledge written in black Nasta'liq script by the calligrapher (Mir) 'Imad al-Hasani in the 17th Cent. Below the quatrain, the calligrapher (Mir) 'Imad al-Hasani has signed his work with his name and a number of diminutives, as well as a request for God's forgiveness. Mir 'Imad (d. 1615) was born in 1552, spent time in Herat and Qazvin, and finally...- Contributor: Imad Al-Hasani
- Date: 16??