Album of Muraqqa‘at

Location: Ottoman Turkey

Materials: ink, gold, opaque and translucent watercolour on paper; borders of coloured and marbled paper; leather binding with gilt-stamped medallions

Dimensions: 8 original pages mounted on 5 album folios; 14 x 20cm

Accession Number: MSS 274

Other Notes:

The manuscript contains a collection of hadiths and aphorisms, arranged in a traditional layout of one line of thulth and two or more of naskh, written in a horizontal format. The calligraphy is of the highest quality, a fact noticed by previous owner of the manuscript who wrote in Turkish, ‘Hafiz ‘Uthman, at the height of his career’ on folio 1a. 

Script:

written in thulth and naskh scripts

Bibliography:

N.F. Safwat, The Art of the Pen. Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume V, London 1996, cat.58, p.124.