Publication Date
[17-- or 18--?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Turkish /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Turkish / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Islamic calligraphy, Islamic calligraphy /
Specimens., Calligraphy, Turkish, Calligraphy, Turkish /
Specimens., Calligraphy, Persian, Calligraphy, Persian /
Specimens.
Type
kitap
Language
Persian
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
3 panels : paper ; 255 x 180 (192 x 121) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006805720
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Fine album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaâ), namely pieces from a meşk murakkaa carrying alphabetic exercises (müfredat) through the letter sīn. Final piece incomplete with further excercises (mashq) on the reverse. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 278
Origin: Neither signed nor dated ; decoration, paper, etc. may suggest late 18th or 19th century, though possibly later.
Former shelfmark: "107" inscribed in pencil at opening ; "563 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on lower pastedown.
Binding: Boards (quite stiff) covered in tan and red brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns / doublures and flyleaves in block-printed faux marbled paper (evoking shell pattern in blue, green, yellow and orange) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition, compare Déroche OSd 8), pendants and cornerpieces, with tooled and gold-painted borders ; panels hinged together with brown leather ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion.
Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper, written area well-burnished and surface-dyed shades of beige, pale yellow, etc., pieced and set in borders mainly of block-printed faux marbled paper (evoking shell pattern in blue, green, yellow and orange) and all mounted on dense boards ; border for opening panel in a true marbled paper.
Decoration: Written area surrounded by 'gold'-painted frame defined by black fillets and mounted in borders mainly of block-printed faux marbled paper.
Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; large, exquisite calligraphic hand in a bold line.
Layout: Written in 4 lines per page with logograph for "سعي" under each line ; frame-ruled.
Collation: Three 'panels' (mounted leaves) hinged together with brown leather.
Incipit: "ا ب ج د ر د ر س ش ص ط ع ف ق ك ك ل م ن و ه لا ى ي ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Inscriptions in pencil at opening "107" and lower pastedown "563 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" ; clean copy.
