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Manuscript/Mixed Material Two textual excerpts

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Title

  • Two textual excerpts

Names

  • Jamal-i Nuri

Created / Published

  • Late 19th century

Headings

  • -  Calligraphy, Arabic
  • -  Calligraphy, Persian
  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  India
  • -  Calligraphy, Indian
  • -  Arabic script calligraphy
  • -  Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Indian nasta'liq
  • -  Islamic calligraphy
  • -  Islamic manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Two Persian textual excerpts on Indian history and poetry by Sa'di written in late 19th Cent. in Indian Nasta'liq script by the calligrapher Jamal-i Nuri.
  • -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 12 (w) x 20.6 (h) cm
  • -  The first text at the top provides a section from the Indian historical work entitled the "History of Bikramajit" (Ta'rikh-i Bikramajit). It appears that this text belongs to a series of works dealing with local histories, in this case the Indian state of Sangri and its ruler Bikramajit (r. 1800-3 and 1815-6). The calligrapher, a certain Jamal-i Nuri, has signed and dated his work in the last two diagonal lines. He states that he executed the text on the 20th of Rajab during the third regnal year in the capital city (dar al-sultanah) of Lahore. Whose regnal year is not specified, but one may hypothesize that the calligrapher may have written the work during the third year of Bikramajit's rule, that is, in 1803.
  • -  The second text in the lower part of the fragment includes a section of Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) "Bustan" (The Fruit Orchard), which discusses events during the time of the Prophet Muhammad. This section relates the story of a certain Hakim Ta'i, a generous man who belonged to a tribe that did not accept Islam, and his daughter's pleading for the Prophet's mercy upon the killing of her tribesmen (see H. W. Clarke (trans.), "The Bustan of Sa'di" [Tehran: Imperial Organization for Social Services, 1976]: 154-155).
  • -  This calligraphic fragment includes two separate and unrelated texts written diagonally in black Indian nasta'liq script on beige paper. The lines of the texts are separated visually by strokes in red ink.
  • -  This fragment is written in a fluid nasta'liq typical of texts written in India during the late 18th century. The nature of the historical text in the upper portion of the fragment and its date also support placing this fragment within a corpus of works produced ca. 18th century India.
  • -  Script: Indian nasta'liq
  • -  1-87-154.31

Medium

  • 1 volume ; 21.3 (w) x 31.2 (h) cm

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019714664

Online Format

  • pdf
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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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