Coffee house scene (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

İsim	Coffee house scene (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album
Basım Tarihi:	c. 1620
Tür	Belge
Dil	Farsça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Evet
Fiziksel Boyutlar	415 mm x 266 mm (height x width)
Kütüphane:	Chester Beatty
Kayıt Numarası	T 439.9
Lokasyon	Turkish collection
Tarih	c. 1620
Notlar	Coffee house scene (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album. Across Iran, India and Turkey, from the sixteenth century at least, albums (or muraqqa`) had become an important way of storing and presenting one's diverse collection of artworks on paper: valuable specimens of calligraphy, single-page paintings or drawings, and even European prints, all re-mounted in a careful sequence. This album was compiled in early seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, probably for a private citizen. Album-page, ink, colours and gold on paper, mounted on gold-flecked card, painting with calligraphy (recto) and calligraphy with tinted drawing (verso), one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: coffee house scene with men drinking, reading and playing board games, Persian calligraphy in nasta`liq script, mounted on marbled (ebru) paper. Verso: panel of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script signed Shah Mahmud Nishapuri, tinted drawing of two angels with hunting birds, lightly inscribed Bihzad, mounted on gold-flecked paper.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Coffee house scene (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Basım Tarihi c. 1620

Tür Belge

Dil Farsça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Evet

Fiziksel Boyutlar 415 mm x 266 mm (height x width)

Kütüphane Chester Beatty

Kayıt Numarası T 439.9

Lokasyon Turkish collection

Tarih c. 1620

Notlar Coffee house scene (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album. Across Iran, India and Turkey, from the sixteenth century at least, albums (or muraqqa`) had become an important way of storing and presenting one's diverse collection of artworks on paper: valuable specimens of calligraphy, single-page paintings or drawings, and even European prints, all re-mounted in a careful sequence. This album was compiled in early seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, probably for a private citizen. Album-page, ink, colours and gold on paper, mounted on gold-flecked card, painting with calligraphy (recto) and calligraphy with tinted drawing (verso), one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: coffee house scene with men drinking, reading and playing board games, Persian calligraphy in nasta`liq script, mounted on marbled (ebru) paper. Verso: panel of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script signed Shah Mahmud Nishapuri, tinted drawing of two angels with hunting birds, lightly inscribed Bihzad, mounted on gold-flecked paper.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script