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Archer on horseback, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and young dervish (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Title	Archer on horseback, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and young dervish (verso), folio from an Ottoman album
Publication Date:	c. 1620
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	416 mm x 270 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	T 439.4
Library Location	Turkish collection
Date	c. 1620
Notes	Archer on horseback, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and young dervish (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: an archer on a grey horse, lightly inscribed Bihzad, with two panels of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, mounted in painted floral scrollwork border, set on larger gold-flecked album-page. Verso: young man in a Mevlavi cap, holding a book by a tree, mounted in painted floral scrollwork border, all mounted onto marbled (ebru) paper.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Archer on horseback, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and young dervish (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Publication Date c. 1620

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 416 mm x 270 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID T 439.4

Library Location Turkish collection

Date c. 1620

Notes Archer on horseback, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and young dervish (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: an archer on a grey horse, lightly inscribed Bihzad, with two panels of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, mounted in painted floral scrollwork border, set on larger gold-flecked album-page. Verso: young man in a Mevlavi cap, holding a book by a tree, mounted in painted floral scrollwork border, all mounted onto marbled (ebru) paper.

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

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script