Manuscript/Mixed Material Ghazal by Sa'di
About this Item
Title
- Ghazal by Sa'di
Created / Published
- 16th century
Headings
- - Calligraphy, Arabic
- - Calligraphy, Persian
- - Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
- - Iran
- - Arabic script calligraphy
- - Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
- - Islamic calligraphy
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Nasta'liq
Notes
- - A lyric poem (ghazal) by the Persian poet Shaykh Sa'di (d. 691/1292) written in the Nasta'liq script during the Safavid era from Iran.
- - Dimensions of Written Surface: 10.5 (w) x 21.8 (h) cm
- - The corners left open by the intersection of the diagonal verses and the rectangular frame are decorated by illuminated triangles (or thumb pieces). The text panel is framed by a border consisting of cream-colored paper decorated with gold flecks cut out and pasted to the folio. The composition is placed on a larger beige sheet of paper decorated with deer, birds, and various vegetal motifs.
- - The fragment is neither dated nor signed. However, it appears to have been produced in Safavid Iran and placed later into an album (muraqqa') of calligraphies.
- - The verses are written in nasta'liq script using white, light blue, red, and yellow ink on a blue paper. Colored (rangin) inks add variety to the composition and are found in a number of calligraphies produced during the 16th century.
- - This calligraphic fragment contains a lyric poem (ghazal) by the Persian poet Shaykh Sa'di (d. 691/1292). The verses describe a lover's search for his beloved and his request that she show herself to him.
- - Script: nasta'liq
- - 1-85-154.71
Medium
- 1 volume ; 19.4 (w) x 30 (h) cm
Repository
- Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019714613
Online Format
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