Manuscript/Mixed Material Moral lesson (hikayat) on friendship
About this Item
Title
- Moral lesson (hikayat) on friendship
Created / Published
- 17th-18th centuries
Headings
- - Calligraphy, Arabic
- - Calligraphy, Persian
- - Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
- - Iran
- - Arabic script calligraphy
- - Gulzar
- - Islamic calligraphy
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Shikastah
- - Nasta'liq
Notes
- - An excerpt from Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) "Gulistan" (The Rose Garden), with anecdotal stories (hikayat), written in black Shikastah-Nasta'liq Script in 17th-18th Cent. Iran.
- - Calligraphic sheets written in shikastah-nasta'liq script similar to this fragment were produced in Iran during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- - Dimensions of Written Surface: 10.5 (w) x 13.6 (h) cm
- - The text is executed in black shikastah-nasta'liq on a cream-colored paper. The lines of text, which alternate diagonally, are framed by cloud bands on a gold background. The text panel is framed with red, pink, and green borders, and is pasted to a larger sheet of paper backed by cardboard. In the lower right corner of the frames appears a minute scribble, which may be the calligrapher's signature. Unfortunately, it now is illegible.
- - This calligraphic fragment appears to comprise an excerpt from Shaykh Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) "Gulistan" (The Rose Garden), in which he provides readers with a variety of anecdotes or stories (hikayat) with moral lessons. This text describes the anger of a king toward his servant and his desire to punish him, upon which the servant writes a letter to stress his faithfulness and to seek forgiveness. This particular story stresses the virtue of royal clemency.
- - Script: shikastah-nasta'liq
- - 1-87-154.83
Medium
- 1 volume ; 23 (w) x 32 (h) cm
Repository
- Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019714641
Online Format
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