Manuscript/Mixed Material A friend's letter
About this Item
Title
- A friend's letter
Created / Published
- 18th century
Headings
- - Calligraphy, Arabic
- - Calligraphy, Persian
- - Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
- - Iran
- - Arabic script calligraphy
- - Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
- - Islamic calligraphy
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Shikastah
- - Nasta'liq
Notes
- - A friend's letter written in a fine shikastah-nasta'liq script typical of 18th-century compositions from Iran.
- - Because it's been a very long time / That I haven't (been able) to write a worthy letter, / Because a friend among friends wants to write to / Kind people to find out how they are doing...
- - Chun muddat-i mutanahi-st / Ka bi-tahriri ka qabil bashad napardakht / Chun az an dusti az dustan bi-jihat-i kasan-i / Muhabbat tu'aman juya-yi ahvalat farmud...
- - Dimensions of Written Surface: 10.2 (w) x 16.6 (h) cm
- - This calligraphic fragment provides an incomplete letter from a man to his friend written in a fine shikastah-nasta'liq script typical of 18th-century compositions from Persia (Iran). Framed by cloud bands and placed on a gold background with blue vine motifs, the text is comprised of four lines. Beginning with an invocation to God ("huwa," or He) in the top right corner, the letter continues:
- - Script: shikastah-nasta'liq
- - 1-85-154.90
Medium
- 1 volume ; 19.4 (w) x 29.5 (h) cm
Repository
- Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019714623
Online Format
- image