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Young men in Ottoman costume, with Persian and Arabic calligraphy (recto), and seated princes, with Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Title	Young men in Ottoman costume, with Persian and Arabic calligraphy (recto), and seated princes, with Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album
Publication Date:	c. 1620
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	416 mm x 275 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	T 439.3
Library Location	Turkish collection
Date	c. 1620
Notes	Young men in Ottoman costume, with Persian and Arabic calligraphy (recto), and seated princes, with 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 or Chinese paintings, 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, four paintings and four calligraphy samples in Persian, one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: young man in a landscape, young man in red coat, panel of Persian calligraphy in decoupe technique signed Fakhri, and a further couplet of Arabic poetry in nasta`liq script, all mounted onto marbled (ebru) paper. Verso: a prince with musicians and attendants by a garden pavilion, a prince with musicians and attendants in a landscape, panels of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, praising `Id Ramadan, all mounted on marbled (ebru) paper, set on larger gold-flecked album-page.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Young men in Ottoman costume, with Persian and Arabic calligraphy (recto), and seated princes, with Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Publication Date c. 1620

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 416 mm x 275 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID T 439.3

Library Location Turkish collection

Date c. 1620

Notes Young men in Ottoman costume, with Persian and Arabic calligraphy (recto), and seated princes, with 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 or Chinese paintings, 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, four paintings and four calligraphy samples in Persian, one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: young man in a landscape, young man in red coat, panel of Persian calligraphy in decoupe technique signed Fakhri, and a further couplet of Arabic poetry in nasta`liq script, all mounted onto marbled (ebru) paper. Verso: a prince with musicians and attendants by a garden pavilion, a prince with musicians and attendants in a landscape, panels of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, praising `Id Ramadan, all mounted on marbled (ebru) paper, set on larger gold-flecked album-page.

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

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script