Title: Album of Muraqqa‘at
Date: 17th–18th century
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.
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