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Manuscript/Mixed Material Section of Mirkhwand's "Rawzat al-Safa'"

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Title

  • Section of Mirkhwand's "Rawzat al-Safa'"

Created / Published

  • 18th-19th centuries

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  A page from "Rawzat al-Safa'" (The Garden of Purity), a Persian historical encyclopedia from the Timurid author Mirkhwand (d. 903/1498), written Indian Ta'liq script in the 18th-19th centuries, from Indian Shi'i regions.
  • -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 15.1 (w) x 22.7 (h) cm
  • -  The imam is described as going one day to a mountainous place where he sees a group of Christians looking for a monk (rahib) in a monastery (dayr) from which he had not exited for an entire year. Although the remaining portion of the story is lost, the last word (wa, "and") and the number 12 in the lower left corner hint that the text may have continued on a subsequent page.
  • -  The text is executed in black ta'liq typical of the 18th and 19th centuries, while the theme of its text suggests an Indian Shi'i milieu. Written diagonally on a cream-colored paper, the text panel is framed by a dark green border outlined in red and mounted to a cardboard for strengthening.
  • -  This fragment includes a section of the "Rawzat al-Safa'" (The Garden of Purity), a Persian historical encyclopedia composed by the prolific Timurid author Mirkhwand (d. 903/1498). This particular excerpt begins with an invocation to God as the Glorified (huwa al-'aziz) and then relates a particular episode in the life of the seventh Shi'i imam Musa b. Ja'far al-Kazim (d. 183/799).
  • -  Script: Indian ta'liq
  • -  1-88-154.25

Medium

  • 1 volume ; 18.4 (w) x 29.1 (h) cm

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019714674

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

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

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Section of Mirkhwand's "Rawzat al-Safa'". 18th-19th Centuries. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019714674/.

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Section of Mirkhwand's "Rawzat al-Safa'". 18th-19th Centuries. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019714674/.

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Section of Mirkhwand's "Rawzat al-Safa'". 18th-19th Centuries. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019714674/>.