Coffee house scene (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Name: Coffee house scene (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album
Author: Shah Mahmud Nishapuri Zarin Qalam

İsim	Coffee house scene (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album
Yazar	Shah Mahmud Nishapuri Zarin Qalam
Basım Tarihi:	1620
Tür	Resim
Dil	Arapça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	La Laguna Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi
Kayıt Numarası	cdi_europeana_collections_1100_3433
Tarih	1620
Notlar	Coffee house scene (recto) and 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, 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, painting with calligraphy (recto) and calligraphy with tinted drawing (verso), one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: coffee house scene with men drinking, reading and playing board games, Persian calligraphy in nasta`liq script, mounted on marbled (ebru) paper. Verso: panel of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script signed Shah Mahmud Nishapuri, tinted drawing of two angels with hunting birds, lightly inscribed Bihzad, mounted on gold-flecked paper.

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Coffee house scene (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Yazar Shah Mahmud Nishapuri Zarin Qalam

Basım Tarihi 1620

Tür Resim

Dil Arapça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane La Laguna Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi

Kayıt Numarası cdi_europeana_collections_1100_3433

Tarih 1620

Notlar Coffee house scene (recto) and 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, 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, painting with calligraphy (recto) and calligraphy with tinted drawing (verso), one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: coffee house scene with men drinking, reading and playing board games, Persian calligraphy in nasta`liq script, mounted on marbled (ebru) paper. Verso: panel of Persian poetry in nasta`liq script signed Shah Mahmud Nishapuri, tinted drawing of two angels with hunting birds, lightly inscribed Bihzad, mounted on gold-flecked paper.