Manuscripts in Riqa Script 36 items

1. Main Title: Baysunghur Album (TSM H 2152)
Image Title: f. 31b: Calligraphic exercise after a model in riqa attr. bto Ahmad al-Rumi, Herat, before 1433 22396045

Date:

1400
1499
15th cent.

2. Main Title: Baysunghur Album (TSM H 2152)
Image Title: f. 27b: Firman of Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (1317-1335) in gold thuluth; Blessings upon prophet Muhammad and his family in riqa; Single line in riqa 22396046

Date:

1400
1499
15th cent.

3. Main Title: Baysunghur Album (TSM H 2152)
Image Title: f. 40b: Circular composition in riqa surrounded by 31 circles with names of the prophets from Adam to Muhammad; corner pieces 22396042

Date:

1400
1499
15th cent.

4. Main Title: Baysunghur Album (TSM H 2152)
Image Title: f. 42b: "Sublimity of mind is part of faith," Arabic thuluth or riqa enclosed in two calligraphy borders in black and purple inks 22396041

Date:

1400
1499
15th cent.

5. Main Title: Baysunghur Album (TSM H 2152)
Image Title: f. 40a: Circular composition with a riqa title, eight circles with dots, 12 circles with names of the months, and five circles with names of the prophets 22396055

Date:

1400
1499
15th cent.

6. Main Title: Baysunghur Album (TSM H 2152)
Image Title: f. 10a: "Sublimity of mind is part of faith," surrounded by blocks of smaller Arabic texts (muhaqqaq, naskh, thuluth, and riqa) 22396035

Date:

1400
1499
15th cent.

7. Text Page with Illuminated Chapter Headings for Chapters 111 and 112

Creator:

Iranian

Date:

1230 AH/AD 1814-1815 (?)

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 5 5/16 x W: 3 1/8 in. (13.5 x 8 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream laid paper

8. Text Page with Illuminated Chapter Heading for Chapter 4

Creator:

Iranian

Date:

1230 AH/AD 1814-1815 (?)

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 5 5/16 x W: 3 1/8 in. (13.5 x 8 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream laid paper

9. Text Page with Illuminated Chapter Heading for Chapter 5

Creator:

Iranian

Date:

1230 AH/AD 1814-1815 (?)

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 5 5/16 x W: 3 1/8 in. (13.5 x 8 cm)

Medium:

cream laid paper with ink, paint, and gold

10. Illuminated Double-page Incipit

Creator:

Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad Jami (Persian, died 898 AH/AD 1492)

Date:

965 AH/AD 1557-1558

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 9 5/8 x W: 5 7/8 in. (24.5 x 15 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream-colored, gold-sprinkled laid paper

Time period:

Safavid

11. Illuminated Double-page Incipit with Titlepiece

Creator:

Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad Jami (Persian, died 898 AH/AD 1492)

Date:

965 AH/AD 1557-1558

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 9 5/8 x W: 5 7/8 in. (24.5 x 15 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream-colored, gold-sprinkled laid paper

Time period:

Safavid

12. Binding from Poems (tarji'band)

Creator:

Iranian

Date:

13th century AH/AD 19th century

Extent:

Dimensions: Folio H: 6 7/8 x W: 4 5/16 in. (17.5 x 11.0 cm)

Medium:

lacquer

Time period:

Qajar

13. Illuminated Explicit Page with Colophon

Creator:

al-Busiri (Egyptian, died 694 AH/AD 1294)

Date:

11th century AH/AD 17th century-12th century AH/AD 18th century

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 10 1/16 x W: 6 1/2 in. (25.5 x 16.5 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream, glazed paper for main panel with multi-colored paper for inlaid margins

14. Left Side of a Double-page Illuminated Incipit

Creator:

Iranian

Date:

1230 AH/AD 1814-1815 (?)

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 5 5/16 x W: 3 1/8 in. (13.5 x 8 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream laid paper

15. Left Side of an Illuminated Double-page Incipit

Creator:

Muhammad ibn Mustafa Izmiri (Turkish)

Date:

1282 AH/AD 1865-1866

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 5 1/8 x W: 3 9/16 in. (13 x 9 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream-colored paper

Time period:

Ottoman

16. Right Side of a Double-page Illuminated Incipit

Creator:

Iranian

Date:

1230 AH/AD 1814-1815 (?)

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 5 5/16 x W: 3 1/8 in. (13.5 x 8 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream laid paper

17. Right Side of an Illuminated Double-page Incipit

Creator:

Muhammad ibn Mustafa Izmiri (Turkish)

Date:

1282 AH/AD 1865-1866

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 5 1/8 x W: 3 9/16 in. (13 x 9 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream-colored paper

Time period:

Ottoman

18. Incipit with Illuminated Titlepiece

Creator:

Nizami Ganjavi (Azerbaijani, died 605 AH/AD 1209)

Date:

10th century AH/AD 16th century

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 11 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28 x 19 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on tinted laid paper: cream for text area and rose or light brown for margins

Time period:

Safavid (?)

19. Illuminated Colophon

Creator:

'Ali ibn Abi Talib (died 40 AH/AD 661)

Date:

941 AH/AD 1534

Extent:

Dimensions: H: 9 1/4 x W: 6 1/2 in. (23.5 x 16.5 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on laid paper

20. Poem in Honor of the Prophet Muhammad

Creator:

al-Busiri (Egyptian, died 694 AH/AD 1294)

Date:

11th century AH/AD 17th century-12th century AH/AD 18th century

Extent:

Dimensions: Folio H: 10 1/16 x W: 6 1/2 in. (25.5 x 16.5 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream, glazed paper for main panel with multi-colored paper for inlaid margins covered with red goatskin with gold with black leather doublures

21. Qur'an

Creator:

Iranian

Date:

1230 AH/AD 1814-1815 (?)

Extent:

Dimensions: Folio H: 5 5/16 x W: 3 1/8 in. (13.5 x 8 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream laid paper covered with lacquer

22. Qur'an

Creator:

Iranian

Date:

13th century AH/AD 19th century

Extent:

Dimensions: Folio H: 3 3/4 x W: 2 9/16 in. (9.5 x 6.5 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on laid paper covered with lacquer with marbled paper

Time period:

Qajar

23. Qur'an

Creator:

Muhammad ibn Mustafa Izmiri (Turkish)

Date:

1282 AH/AD 1865-1866

Extent:

Dimensions: Folio H: 5 1/8 x W: 3 9/16 in. (13 x 9 cm)

Medium:

ink and pigments on cream-colored paper covered in black leather with gold and blue paper endpapers

Time period:

Ottoman

24. Kitāb al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir al-naḥwīyah

Creator:

Suyūṭī
سيوطي

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Eminzade Mustafa, former owner
امين زاده مصطفى، مالك سابق

Date:

[1480?-1536].

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

290 leaves : paper ; 233 x 155 (163 x 75) mm.