Title: Two Pages from an Album
Date: 17th century
Location: India
Materials: ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 36.6 x 30cm (folio 1); and 36.6 x 33.3cm (folio 2)
Accession Number: CAL 259
Other Notes:
The text on folio 1, verso, reads, ‘In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful’; that on folio 2, recto, ‘the Greatest of Names, the All-Knowing, the Wise’. Qur’anic verses, written in ghubar script, fill out the shapes of the letters.
Script:
written in thulth, outlined in gold and filled with ghubar 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.127–8, pp.186–8.
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