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Tinted drawing and calligraphy, folio from an album for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Title	Tinted drawing and calligraphy, folio from an album for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
Publication Date:	1550-1605
Type	Document
Language	ara,fas
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	390 mm x 280 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 225.4
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	1550-1605
Notes	Tinted drawing and calligraphy, folio from an album for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (d. 1612). This folio was once part of a calligraphic poetry album, produced for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, who ruled the Deccani sultanate of Golconda, in India. Some of the sultan's own poetry (beautifully written out by his court calligraphers) is included in the compilation, as well as these older examples (Per 225.4) of fine calligraphy, tinted drawing and gold-painted borders from Iran. There are at least fifteen known folios from this album, which was also re-bordered at a late date. Folio, ink, gold and colours on paper, mounted on card, tinted drawing of a hawk attacking a heron, with foxes, a monkey, other birds and a large flying insect in the surrounding landscape, with inscription (lower left) attributed to Bihzad, dark blue main border with gold-painted monkeys, birds and deer in landscape (on recto), and calligraphy in Arabic (in thuluth and naskh scripts) and Persian (in nasta`liq script) quoting the bismillah and describing the Prophet, unsigned (on verso), folio from an album compiled for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (r. 1580-1612), calligraphy, tinted drawing and blue borders Iran, c. 1550-1600, album assembly Golconda and Hyderabad, Deccan, India, c. 1590-1605
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

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Tinted drawing and calligraphy, folio from an album for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Publication Date 1550-1605

Type Document

Language ara,fas

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 390 mm x 280 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 225.4

Library Location Persian collection

Date 1550-1605

Notes Tinted drawing and calligraphy, folio from an album for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (d. 1612). This folio was once part of a calligraphic poetry album, produced for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, who ruled the Deccani sultanate of Golconda, in India. Some of the sultan's own poetry (beautifully written out by his court calligraphers) is included in the compilation, as well as these older examples (Per 225.4) of fine calligraphy, tinted drawing and gold-painted borders from Iran. There are at least fifteen known folios from this album, which was also re-bordered at a late date. Folio, ink, gold and colours on paper, mounted on card, tinted drawing of a hawk attacking a heron, with foxes, a monkey, other birds and a large flying insect in the surrounding landscape, with inscription (lower left) attributed to Bihzad, dark blue main border with gold-painted monkeys, birds and deer in landscape (on recto), and calligraphy in Arabic (in thuluth and naskh scripts) and Persian (in nasta`liq script) quoting the bismillah and describing the Prophet, unsigned (on verso), folio from an album compiled for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (r. 1580-1612), calligraphy, tinted drawing and blue borders Iran, c. 1550-1600, album assembly Golconda and Hyderabad, Deccan, India, c. 1590-1605

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

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)