Study of a Dragon (recto), and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Name: Study of a Dragon (recto), and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album
Author: Mir Mustafa

İsim	Study of a Dragon (recto), and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album
Yazar	Mir Mustafa
Basım Tarihi:	1550
Tür	Resim
Dil	Arapça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	La Laguna Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi
Kayıt Numarası	cdi_europeana_collections_1100_3431
Tarih	1550
Notlar	Study of a Dragon (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 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. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, mounted on card, tinted drawing of a sinuous dragon framed in Persian calligraphy (on recto), and Persian verses in nasta`liq script by the Ottoman calligrapher Mir Mustafa, or Miri (on verso), mounted on album-page with marbled (ebru) borders, Istanbul, Turkey, calligraphy and drawing 1550-1600, album compiled c. 1620.

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Study of a Dragon (recto), and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Yazar Mir Mustafa

Basım Tarihi 1550

Tür Resim

Dil Arapça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane La Laguna Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi

Kayıt Numarası cdi_europeana_collections_1100_3431

Tarih 1550

Notlar Study of a Dragon (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 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. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, mounted on card, tinted drawing of a sinuous dragon framed in Persian calligraphy (on recto), and Persian verses in nasta`liq script by the Ottoman calligrapher Mir Mustafa, or Miri (on verso), mounted on album-page with marbled (ebru) borders, Istanbul, Turkey, calligraphy and drawing 1550-1600, album compiled c. 1620.