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Manuscript/Mixed Material Two bayts (verses) of poetry

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Title

  • Two bayts (verses) of poetry

Names

  • Sultan Hafiz Muhammad 'Ali

Created / Published

  • 1006/1597-8

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Two bayts (verses) of Persian poetry, in the Safavid style written in black nasta'liq script.
  • -  And the last two lines read: Budi shab u ruz dar baharan / Abr az ghamm-i u sarashk baran.
  • -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 7.5 (w) x 16.2 (h) cm
  • -  During the night and day of Spring, / The cloud was crying because of its sorrow
  • -  In the lower right corner of the text panel appears the year (sanah) 1006/1597-8. Although the calligraphic piece is not signed, a note on the verso attributes the work to a certain Sultan Hafiz Muhammad 'Ali, the brother of Hafiz Nur Allah. This calligrapher may be Mawlana Sultan Muhammad, the son (not brother) of Mawlana Nur Allah (Qadi Ahmad 1959, 134) and a pupil of the famous Persian calligrapher Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi (d. 920/1514, see 1-84-154.33). However, the work's date of 1597-8, that is, more than 80 years after Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi's death, seems too late to support such an identification. Although Sultan Hafiz Muhammad is not clearly identifiable, the calligrapher who executed this fragment was certainly a Safavid master of nasta'liq script.
  • -  Kas ba chumani chara satizad / Az kushtan-i khun-i man cha khizad
  • -  The verses are executed in black nasta'liq script in diagonal on a beige sheet of paper. Gold and blue borders are rather sloppily pasted on.
  • -  This calligraphic fragment includes two unrelated bayts of poetry in Persian. The first two lines read: Why does anybody fight with someone like me? / What comes from killing me and shedding my blood?
  • -  Script: nasta'liq
  • -  1-04-713.19.45

Medium

  • 1 volume ; 22.5 (w) x 36 (h) cm

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019714550

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

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

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Sultan Hafiz Muhammad 'Ali. Two Bayts Verses of Poetry. /1597-8, 1597. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019714550/.

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Sultan Hafiz Muhammad 'Ali. (1597) Two Bayts Verses of Poetry. /1597-8. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019714550/.

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Sultan Hafiz Muhammad 'Ali. Two Bayts Verses of Poetry. /1597-8, 1597. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019714550/>.