Manuscript/Mixed Material Page from an unidentified text

Title

• Page from an unidentified text

Created / Published

• 17th-18th centuries

Headings

• -  Calligraphy, Arabic
• -  Calligraphy, Persian
• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Iran
• -  India
• -  Arabic script calligraphy
• -  Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
• -  Islamic calligraphy
• -  Islamic manuscripts
• -  Nasta'liq

Notes

• -  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 includes a chapter, provided with a heading in red ink in the center of the text panel, providing a description (sifat) of craftsmen in a particular land.
• -  The script and page layout suggest that this fragment was executed in Iran or India during the 17th or 18th century.
• -  The text is executed in a rather hasty nasta'liq script written horizontally in two columns and diagonally in one column. A number of lines are lost due to water damage. The text and folio frames consist of a number of borders in gold, red, and blue, while the text's margins are decorated with a series of floral sprays and leaves painted in gold.
• -  Script: nasta'liq
• -  1-04-713.19.6

Medium

• 1 volume ; 17.5 (w) x 28.1 (h) cm

Repository

• Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/ascs.051

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019714561

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019714561

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