Manuscript/Mixed Material The lover's lament
About this Item
Title
- The lover's lament
Created / Published
- 16th-17th centuries
Headings
- - Calligraphy, Arabic
- - Calligraphy, Persian
- - Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
- - Iran
- - Asia, Central
- - Arabic script calligraphy
- - Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
- - Islamic calligraphy
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Nasta'liq
Notes
- - Persian poem on: The lover's lament about his beloved's indifference, written in the Nasta'liq script in the 16th-17th Cent. Iran or Central Asia.
- - Dimensions of Written Surface: 7.8 (w) x 15.8 (h) cm
- - My body is exhausted from sorrow, what will I do? / The fire is in my burning heart, what will I do? / Because of (her), who brands my deplorable heart / (She) is a garden and spring for others, what will I do?
- - Tanam az ghusa figar ast, cha khwaham kardan? / Atasham dar dil-i zar ast, cha khwaham kardan? / Anka panbaya dagh ast dil-i zaram az u / Hama-ra bagh u bahar ast, cha khwaham kardan?
- - The fragment is neither dated nor signed. However, it may have been produced in Iran during the 16th or 17th century.
- - The verses are executed in black nasta'liq script on a beige paper decorated with bird and leaf designs painted in gold. The main text panel is bordered by a number of other verses in both diagonal and vertical registers forming a frame. The entire composition is pasted to a larger sheet of paper decorated with a pounced vegetal motif in green and backed by cardboard.
- - This calligraphic fragment includes a lover's lament about his beloved's indifference. The verses read:
- - Script: nasta'liq
- - 1-87-154.156 R
Medium
- 1 volume ; 16.9 (w) x 26.2 (h) cm
Repository
- Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019714657
Online Format
- image