[Calligraphic specimen

Name: [Calligraphic specimen
Author: Anvarī, Awḥad al-Dīn, -1189 or 1190, انورى، اوحد الدين, -1189 or 1190

İsim	[Calligraphic specimen
Yazar	Anvarī, Awḥad al-Dīn, -1189 or 1190, انورى، اوحد الدين, -1189 or 1190
Yazar Orijinal	انورى، اوحد الدين
Basım Tarihi:	1864
Konu	Calligraphy, Persian -- Specimens, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Tür	Kitap
Dil	Farsça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Evet
Sayfa Sayısı	7
Fiziksel Boyutlar	7 panels : paper ; 282 x 227 (215 x 174) mm
Kütüphane:	Michigan Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	1194761769
Kayıt Numarası	990068057240106381
Lokasyon	UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Tarih	Possibly between 1864-1865
Notlar	Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer., Incipit: "مديح سپهر رفعت بحر و قار و كدهي يكانه كوهر بحر كرم فؤاد پاشا ... ", Explicit: "ایا چرخ در پیش قدر تو واله ... تویی آنکه بر درگهت چرخ دربان كتبه ابو تراب افتاده", Collation: Seven 'panels' (mounted leaves) hinged together with blue textile., Layout: Varies widely, pages carrying text with mainly 6-8 lines per page ; many pages carrying figurative or vegetal decoration only., Script: Mainly nastaʻlīq with occasional thuluth ; exquisite calligraphic hand executed with the fingernail or stylus in the technique known as khaṭṭ-i nākhunī ( خط ناخنی / khaṭṭ-e nākhonī). Compare no. 1-85-154.63 at the Library of Congress and see description provided by Christiane Gruber in Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy (available online)., Decoration: Embossed borders (reminiscent of mountains) as well as vegetal and figurative designs with such animals as lions, dragons, stags, bulls, etc. accenting the calligraphy or filling a page., Support: Paper of written area embossed to carry text and figurative designs, set in surface-dyed frames of bright green and mounted on pasteboards., Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark green leather (appearance of straight-grain leather but likely impressed straight grain or other artificial grain) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a streaked paper (in yellow, dark purple, etc. reminiscent of tree-marbling or stream marbling) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped central vegetal pendant, corner accents and vegetal border ; sewn in red thread, four stations, failed ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, staining, etc., Former shelfmark: "598 [?]" inscribed in pencil on verso of 'front' flyleaf ; "123" inscribed in pencil on recto of 'back' flyleaf., Origin: Date below vase with large floral spray 1281 [1864 or 5] ; other features also suggest 19th century. As appears in opening text, possibly executed for the Ottoman statesman Mehmet Fuat Paşa (d.1869)., Inscriptions in pencil "598 [?]" on verso of front flyleaf and "123" on recto of 'back' flyleaf ; red circular bookseller's sticker "De Marinis & Co. \| 5 Vecchietti \| Firenze" on 'upper' pastedown ; inscription in blue ink on recto of back flyleaf "على قوشى رسملى رسم ٧" ; clean copy., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 279
Örnek Metin	Superb album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkâ) with verses of Anvari, etc. and interspersed figurative illustrations of lions, dragons, stags, and other animals as well as vegetal motifs, all embossed in white paper likely with the fingernail, a technique known as khaṭṭ-i nākhunī ( خط ناخنی / khaṭṭ-e nākhonī). Contributions to the description from Ulrich Marzolph and Emily Neumeier.
Katkıda Bulunanlar	Anvarī, Awḥad al-Dīn, -1189 or 1190. Poems. Selections.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi	20251210
Biçim	Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda	Abdul Hamid Collection.
Referanslar	Brocade of the pen : the art of Islamic writing. Carol Garrett Fisher, ed. (East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991), no.8, p.84, Zakariya, Mohamed. "Islamic calligraphy: A technical overview." In Brocade of the pen: the art of Islamic writing. Carol Garrett Fisher, ed. (East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991): 1-17, ʻArabʻzādah, Abū al-Faz̤l. "Muʻarrifī-i as̲arī-i nādir al-vujūd va nafīs: Khaṭṭ-i nākhunī." Payām-i Bahāristān, dawrah-i 2, shumārah-i 4, (Tābistān 1388 [2009]): 831-882, Library of Congress no. 1-85-154.63, available online (Christiane Gruber, Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy, digital id ascs 109), Shiva Mihan, "Fingernail Art (I): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century," The Digital Orientalist, 11 December 2020 (available online), Shiva Mihan, "Fingernail Art (II): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century," The Digital Orientalist, 15 February 2021 (available online), figs. 13 and 14, Christiane Gruber, "Without Pen, Without Ink: Fingernail Art in the Qajar period," In Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art, edited by Gwenaëlle Fellinger and Melanie Gibson (London: Gingko; Paris: Louvre Museum, 2021), 94-105, Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes and Shiva Mihan, "Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran," The Digital Orientalist, 29 October 2021 (available online)
Elde Ediliş	Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).

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[Calligraphic specimen

Yazar Anvarī, Awḥad al-Dīn, -1189 or 1190, انورى، اوحد الدين, -1189 or 1190

Yazar Orijinal انورى، اوحد الدين

Basım Tarihi 1864

Konu Calligraphy, Persian -- Specimens, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor

Tür Kitap

Dil Farsça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Evet

Sayfa Sayısı 7

Fiziksel Boyutlar 7 panels : paper ; 282 x 227 (215 x 174) mm

Kütüphane Michigan Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası 1194761769

Kayıt Numarası 990068057240106381

Lokasyon UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library

Tarih Possibly between 1864-1865

Notlar Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer., Incipit: "مديح سپهر رفعت بحر و قار و كدهي يكانه كوهر بحر كرم فؤاد پاشا ... ", Explicit: "ایا چرخ در پیش قدر تو واله ... تویی آنکه بر درگهت چرخ دربان كتبه ابو تراب افتاده", Collation: Seven 'panels' (mounted leaves) hinged together with blue textile., Layout: Varies widely, pages carrying text with mainly 6-8 lines per page ; many pages carrying figurative or vegetal decoration only., Script: Mainly nastaʻlīq with occasional thuluth ; exquisite calligraphic hand executed with the fingernail or stylus in the technique known as khaṭṭ-i nākhunī ( خط ناخنی / khaṭṭ-e nākhonī). Compare no. 1-85-154.63 at the Library of Congress and see description provided by Christiane Gruber in Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy (available online)., Decoration: Embossed borders (reminiscent of mountains) as well as vegetal and figurative designs with such animals as lions, dragons, stags, bulls, etc. accenting the calligraphy or filling a page., Support: Paper of written area embossed to carry text and figurative designs, set in surface-dyed frames of bright green and mounted on pasteboards., Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark green leather (appearance of straight-grain leather but likely impressed straight grain or other artificial grain) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a streaked paper (in yellow, dark purple, etc. reminiscent of tree-marbling or stream marbling) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped central vegetal pendant, corner accents and vegetal border ; sewn in red thread, four stations, failed ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, staining, etc., Former shelfmark: "598 [?]" inscribed in pencil on verso of 'front' flyleaf ; "123" inscribed in pencil on recto of 'back' flyleaf., Origin: Date below vase with large floral spray 1281 [1864 or 5] ; other features also suggest 19th century. As appears in opening text, possibly executed for the Ottoman statesman Mehmet Fuat Paşa (d.1869)., Inscriptions in pencil "598 [?]" on verso of front flyleaf and "123" on recto of 'back' flyleaf ; red circular bookseller's sticker "De Marinis & Co. | 5 Vecchietti | Firenze" on 'upper' pastedown ; inscription in blue ink on recto of back flyleaf "على قوشى رسملى رسم ٧" ; clean copy., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 279

Örnek Metin Superb album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkâ) with verses of Anvari, etc. and interspersed figurative illustrations of lions, dragons, stags, and other animals as well as vegetal motifs, all embossed in white paper likely with the fingernail, a technique known as khaṭṭ-i nākhunī ( خط ناخنی / khaṭṭ-e nākhonī). Contributions to the description from Ulrich Marzolph and Emily Neumeier.

Katkıda Bulunanlar Anvarī, Awḥad al-Dīn, -1189 or 1190. Poems. Selections.

Son Dizinleme Tarihi 20251210

Biçim Book, Manuscript, Available Online

Koleksiyonda Abdul Hamid Collection.

Referanslar Brocade of the pen : the art of Islamic writing. Carol Garrett Fisher, ed. (East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991), no.8, p.84, Zakariya, Mohamed. "Islamic calligraphy: A technical overview." In Brocade of the pen: the art of Islamic writing. Carol Garrett Fisher, ed. (East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991): 1-17, ʻArabʻzādah, Abū al-Faz̤l. "Muʻarrifī-i as̲arī-i nādir al-vujūd va nafīs: Khaṭṭ-i nākhunī." Payām-i Bahāristān, dawrah-i 2, shumārah-i 4, (Tābistān 1388 [2009]): 831-882, Library of Congress no. 1-85-154.63, available online (Christiane Gruber, Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy, digital id ascs 109), Shiva Mihan, "Fingernail Art (I): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century," The Digital Orientalist, 11 December 2020 (available online), Shiva Mihan, "Fingernail Art (II): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century," The Digital Orientalist, 15 February 2021 (available online), figs. 13 and 14, Christiane Gruber, "Without Pen, Without Ink: Fingernail Art in the Qajar period," In Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art, edited by Gwenaëlle Fellinger and Melanie Gibson (London: Gingko; Paris: Louvre Museum, 2021), 94-105, Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes and Shiva Mihan, "Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran," The Digital Orientalist, 29 October 2021 (available online)

Elde Ediliş Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).