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Location: Iran
Materials: ink, gold and watercolours on paper, varnished and mounted on board within borders of tinted paper
Dimensions: 7.1 x 19.3cm (main panel)
Accession Number: CAL 99
Other Notes:
The calligrapher has elaborated on the basic script by adding decorative terminals to the letter forms. The text is from surah al-Jum‘ah (LXII), part of verse 5.
Script:
written in a decorative thulth script
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.113, pp.176–7.
