Manuscript/Mixed Material Id (feast day ) Prayer
About this Item
Title
- Id (feast day ) Prayer
Created / Published
- 18th century (?)
Headings
- - Calligraphy, Arabic
- - Calligraphy, Persian
- - Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
- - India
- - Arabic script calligraphy
- - Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
- - Islamic calligraphy
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Nasta'liq
Notes
- - Persian Nowruz poem, or quatrain (ruba'i), writen in Nasta'liq script.
- - Ay rukhat 'id u abruyat mah-i 'id / Mah u salat khujasta bad u sa'id / Dida rushan mabad bi-ruyat / Qibla-yi khalq taq-i abruyat
- - Dimensions of Written Surface: 9.2 (w) x 16.9 (h) cm
- - Judging from the fragment's theme (e.g. see 1-04-713.19.3, 1-04-713.19.49, 1-04-713.19.48, 1-84-154.51, and 1-85-154.99), it is possible to suggest that the piece was executed in India sometime during the 18th or 19th century as a New Year's gift to an eminent patron.
- - Oh, your face is 'id and your eyebrow is the moon of 'id / May your month and year be auspicious and happy / May my eye not be bright without seeing you / The arch of your eyebrow is the prayer direction of (all) people
- - The text is written in black nasta'liq script on a beige paper and is framed by cloud bands on a gold background. The text panel is provided with blue and green frames and is pasted to a larger sheet of pink paper backed by cardboard. It seems like a calligrapher's signature may have been placed in the lower right corner of the text panel. However, it now is illegible due to water damage.
- - This calligraphic fragment includes a poetical prayer wishing its owner happiness and prosperity on the occasion of the festival ('id) of New Year (Noruz). Beginning with a (now barely legible) invocation to God as the Glorious (huwa al-'aziz), the verses then read:
- - Script: nasta'liq
- - 1-04-713.19.4
Medium
- 1 volume ; 22 (w) x 35 (h) cm
Repository
- Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019714549
Online Format
- image