مرقع حسن الخط
- العناصر المساهمة:
- جامعة ميشيغان
- البيانات المساهمة:
- جامعة ميشيغان
- عنوان:
- مرقع حسن الخط
Calligraphic specimen - المساهم:
- انورى، اوحد الدين
Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Anvarī, Awḥad al-Dīn - تاريخ المصدر:
- [1864 or 1865?].
- الوصف:
- Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 279Origin: Date below vase with large floral spray 1281 [1864 or 5] ; other features also suggest 19th century. As appears in opening text, possibly executed for the Ottoman statesman Mehmet Fuat Paşa (d.1869).Former shelfmark: "598 [?]" inscribed in pencil on verso of 'front' flyleaf ; "123" inscribed in pencil on recto of 'back' flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark green leather (appearance of straight-grain leather but likely impressed straight grain or other artificial grain) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a streaked paper (in yellow, dark purple, etc. reminiscent of tree-marbling or stream marbling) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped central vegetal pendant, corner accents and vegetal border ; sewn in red thread, four stations, failed ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, staining, etc.Support: Paper of written area embossed to carry text and figurative designs, set in surface-dyed frames of bright green and mounted on pasteboards.Decoration: Embossed borders (reminiscent of mountains) as well as vegetal and figurative designs with such animals as lions, dragons, stags, bulls, etc. accenting the calligraphy or filling a page.Script: Mainly nastaʻlīq with occasional thuluth ; exquisite calligraphic hand executed with the fingernail or stylus in the technique known as khaṭṭ-i nākhunī ( خط ناخنی / khaṭṭ-e nākhonī). Compare no. 1-85-154.63 at the Library of Congress and see description provided by Christiane Gruber in Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy (available online).Layout: Varies widely, pages carrying text with mainly 6-8 lines per page ; many pages carrying figurative or vegetal decoration only.Collation: Seven 'panels' (mounted leaves) hinged together with blue textile.Explicit: "ایا چرخ در پیش قدر تو واله ... تویی آنکه بر درگهت چرخ دربان كتبه ابو تراب افتاده"Incipit: "مديح سپهر رفعت بحر و قار و كدهي يكانه كوهر بحر كرم فؤاد پاشا ... "Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Superb album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkâ) employing verses of Anvari, etc. with interspersed figurative illustrations of lions, dragons, stags, bulls, etc. as well as vegetal motifs, all embossed in white paper likely with the fingernail, a technique known as khaṭṭ-i nākhunī ( خط ناخنی / khaṭṭ-e nākhonī). Contributions to the description from Ulrich Marzolph and Emily Neumeier.
- اللغة:
- الفارسية
- النوع (Raw):
- المخطوطات
- (EDM) النوع:
- نص
- الموضوع:
- Manuscripts, Persian
Calligraphy, Persian Specimens. - المدى الزمني:
- 7 panels : paper ; 282 x 227 (215 x 174) mm.
- حقوق معيار دبلن كور:
- Public Domain
- الصيغة:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print - مماثل لـ :
- https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006805724