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Manuscript/Mixed Material Two Bayts (verses) on modesty

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Title

  • Two Bayts (verses) on modesty

Created / Published

  • ca. 16th-17th centuries

Headings

  • -  Calligraphy, Arabic
  • -  Calligraphy, Persian
  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Iran
  • -  India
  • -  Arabic script calligraphy
  • -  Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Islamic calligraphy
  • -  Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Nasta'liq

Notes

  • -  Two Bayts (verses) on modesty, in Persian and written in black Nasta'liq script from Iran or India. (Safavid or Mughal)
  • -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 18.7 (w) x 9.4 (h) cm
  • -  In these repeating verses, the beloved ones or objects of beauty (literally, the "ones wearing crooked helmets," kajkulahan) are the target of violence and animosity.
  • -  They want to break the wild-eyed / They want to break the black-eyelashed / They want to break the heart from the spirit / They want to break the objects of beauty
  • -  This calligraphic fragment includes two bayts of poetry that describe people's desire to break or humble (shikastagi mikhwahand) the beloved:
  • -  Vahshi nigahan shikastagi mikhwahand / Muzhgan siyahan shikastagi mikhwahand / Dil niz bi-jan shikastagi mikhwahand / Kin kajkulahan shikastagi mikhwahand
  • -  Written in black nasta'liq script on orange paper decorated with light gold sprinkles, the text is provided with a gold frame and is pasted onto a blue-and-white marble (abri or ebru) paper strengthened with cardboard. The fragment is neither signed nor dated, but the script and the marble paper suggest that it may have been produced in Iran or India during the 16th or 17th century.
  • -  Script: nasta'liq
  • -  1-04-713.19.27

Medium

  • 1 volume ; 30.3 (w) x 19.5 (h) cm

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019714532

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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