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The seductivness of the world
AUTHOR/CREATOR
Calligrapher: unknown
CREATED/PUBLISHED
16th century
NOTES
Dimensions of Written Surface: 14.1 (w) x 24.5 (h) cm
Script: nasta'liq
This calligraphic panel includes three iambic pentameter quatrains, or ruba'is, on beige or blue papers cut out and pasted onto a sheet from an album (muraqqa') of calligraphies. The quatrain in the upper left panel, executed in black nasta'liq script on a cream-colored sheet decorated with vine motifs painted in gold, reads:
Har ka dil bar ‘ishva-yi giti nihad / Bar hazar bash az ghurur-i jahl-i u / Daman-i an gir kaz himmat fashand / Astin bar dunya u bar ahl-i u
Everyone whose heart is seduced by the world / Avoid (him) because of the pride of his ignorance / Grab the hem of that (person) who, because of his greatness, / Has left behind the world and its dwellers.
The three quatrains are separated by illuminated panels and thumb pieces, and divided horizontally by further verses in Persian. The whole of the text panel is provided by frames of various colors and pasted to a larger sheet of paper decorated by pounced motifs in blue and green. A number of standing figures, as well as a seated angel with red and yellow wings, further decorate the paper. Between each figure, a register includes a number of Persian verses written in red ink. The register in the left border, however, includes an inscription in yellow ink which bears a fragmentary date reading: fi shuhur ithna (in the month of the second...).
Although the year of execution unfortunately is omitted, albums of calligraphies and paintings using pounced decorative papers bearing inscribed medallions and registers are typical of Shaybanid works produced in modern-day Uzbekistan over the course of the 16th century.
SUBJECT
Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
Islamic calligraphy
Arabic calligraphy
Islamic manuscripts
Nasta'liq
Arabic script calligraphy
MEDIUM
27.5 (w) x 40.7 (h) cm
CALL NUMBER
1-2000-154
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
DIGITAL ID
ascs 253
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/ascs.253
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