Title: Folio with the Hilyah and a View of Mecca
Date: 18th century
Location: Ottoman Turkey
Materials:
ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 12.5 x 8.5cm
Accession Number: CAL 452
Other Notes:
The detached folio probably comes from a manuscript containing a selection of prayers and Qur’anic verses (an‘am), of a type which was particularly associated with the Ottomans. The recto has the hilyah of the Prophet and a depiction of the muhr al-nubuwwah (the ‘Seal of Prophethood’). The verso has a view of the Holy Sanctuary at Mecca, which was probably accomapnied by a view of the Prophet’s mosque in Medina on the facing page, in the manner of Ottoman copies of the Dala‘il al-khayrat.
Script:
written in thulth and ghubar 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.8, p.54.
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