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