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Walters Ms. W.673, Album of Persian calligraphy

Walters Ms. W.673, Album of Persian calligraphy

Muraqqaʿ

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This is an illuminated album (muraqqaʿ) in accordion format containing Persian calligraphy. It was executed in Iran during the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. Lines of text in black nastaʿlīq script are framed by decorative cloud-bands. Borders are decorated with illuminated vegetal and animal motifs on multicolored paper. This album bears a seal impression of the Ottoman Sultan ʿUthmān Khān (Osman III, r. 1167 AH / 1754 CE -- 1170 AH / 1757 CE) and a bequest (waqf) entry and seal by Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf, inspector of awqāf (fol. 1b). The dark brown leather binding with central oval and pendants is contemporary with the manuscript but may not be original to it. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W673/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Illuminated headpiece with the doxological formula (basmalah) (fol. 1b); illuminated cloud-bands surrounding verses; borders decorated with vegetal and animal motifs on multicolored paper

fol. 1b Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Incipit; headpiece; seal This incipit page has an illuminated headpiece with the doxological formula (basmalah), which reads, "in the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate." The whole is set within borders decorated with animal and vegetal motifs. In the left margin is the seal of the Ottoman Sultan Osman III (r. 1167 AH / 1754 CE -- 1170 AH / 1757 CE) with the superscript old shelf mark 5012 and (below the seal) a bequest (waqf) entry and seal by Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf, inspector of awqāf.

11th century AH / 17th CE

Seal of Sultan ʿUthmān Khān ibn Muṣṭafá Khān and a bequest (waqf) entry and seal by Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf, inspector of awqāf, and the shelfmark 5012 (fol. 1b)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

paper

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