Yazar
'Abd al-Qadir HisariTurkey
Basım Tarihi
AH 1180 / AD 1766
Basım Yeri
Turkey -
Konu
Ottoman — Manuscript: ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper Binding: leather and gold
Tür
kitap
Dil
Belirlenmemiş dil
Dijital
Evet
Yazma
Evet
Fiziksel Boyutlar
Height: 15.2 cm, width: 10.2 cm
Kütüphane
Museum With No Frontiers
Demirbaş Numarası
2014.44
Kayıt Numarası
GalEx6_us_Mus82_12
Lokasyon
The Metropolitan Museum
Tarih
AH 1180 / AD 1766
Notlar
This small prayer book, or du'anama, belongs to a corpus of illustrated devotional texts produced in the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unlike most prayer books created at the time, this one contains twenty-nine drawings of traditional Islamic themes and subjects, which are outlined in gold and filled with prayers in ghubarnaskh, an especially fine or "dust-like" variety of thenaskhscript. These include representations of the Ka'ba, the footprints (kadem) of the Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of Solomon, the bifurcated sword of 'Ali (zu'l fiqar), Noah's Ark, the lamp of the Prophet, the trumpet of the Archangel Israfil, and the cave from the story of the Seven Sleepers in the Qur'an, among others. The manuscript is signed and dated by the calligrapher, a prominent mid-eighteenth-century master known for his calligrams and pictorial calligraphic compositions, such as the galleon with inscriptions referring to the story of the Seven Sleepers also in the Metropolitan's collection (2003.241). It also contains collectors' stamps dating to the first half of the nineteenth century. The leather binding is decorated with stamped and gilded medallions within a simple border. Prayer manuals enjoyed wide popularity in the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of political reform and religious revivalism. Used for individual prayer, they also served as mediational devices to protect, comfort, and heal their owners.
Örnek Metin
Gift from The Friends of Islamic Art Gifts in 2014
Bu sayfanın künyesi
MWNF Working Number: GalEx6_US2_12
Seçili bibliyografya
James Cummins Bookseller.Catalogue 120, Fall Arrivals.New York, no. 43, (2013)Ekhtiar, M.,How to Read Islamic Calligraphy., New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018."Including Fine Rugs and Carpets, London, 1 May, 2019." InArt of the Islamic World., London: Sotheby's, no. 43, (2019)
