Calligraphic album.

Title:

Calligraphic album.

Creator:

Riżā, Ḥasan, active 1889

Date:

1889 or 1890

Description:

Calligraphic album of a selection of aphorisms of the Prophet Muḥammad written by the calligrapher Ḥasan Riżā. The pages are heavy card with the first and last leaf as a single sheet and all other leaves as sets of two sheets adhered together with ribbon lining the edges. The paired leaves are all beginning to separate.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, 19th century
Manuscripts (documents)
Illuminations (painting)
Quotations, Arabic
Calligraphy, Ottoman

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Three layouts: 1) Three larger lines with two sets of 4 or 5 lines between each set of larger lines, 2) Two larger lines at the head and tail of the page with 7 to 11 lines in the middle, 3) Four larger lines with three sets of two lines in between. All pages border-ruled and framed in blue paper.

Publisher:

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Rights:

These images and the content of Special Collections BV 58: Calligraphic album. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
To the extent possible under law, Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Special Collections BV 58: Calligraphic album.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

Identifier:

BV 58

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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