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Horsemen and scholars, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and hunter and drinker, with decoupe Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Title	Horsemen and scholars, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and hunter and drinker, with decoupe 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 274 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	T 439.2
Library Location	Turkish collection
Date	c. 1620
Notes	Horsemen and scholars, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and hunter and drinker, with decoupe 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 five calligraphy samples in Persian, one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: two horsemen hunting in a landscape, two scholars seated with books, two diagonal panels of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, all mounted on marbled (ebru) paper, set on larger gold-flecked album-page. Verso: a horseman with a falcon, a drinker and a musician seated by a stream in a landscape, panel of Persian calligraphy in decoupe technique signed Fakhri, two further panels of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, 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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Horsemen and scholars, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and hunter and drinker, with decoupe 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 274 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID T 439.2

Library Location Turkish collection

Date c. 1620

Notes Horsemen and scholars, with Persian calligraphy (recto), and hunter and drinker, with decoupe 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 five calligraphy samples in Persian, one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: two horsemen hunting in a landscape, two scholars seated with books, two diagonal panels of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, all mounted on marbled (ebru) paper, set on larger gold-flecked album-page. Verso: a horseman with a falcon, a drinker and a musician seated by a stream in a landscape, panel of Persian calligraphy in decoupe technique signed Fakhri, two further panels of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script, 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