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Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy

Fragmentary verses

AUTHOR/CREATOR
Calligrapher: Safi al-Husayni

CREATED/PUBLISHED
unknown

NOTES
Dimensions of Written Surface: 12 (w) x 22.5 (h) cm

Script: nasta'liq

This calligraphic fragment is in very poor condition. The four verses of Persian poetry are interrupted by a number of large holes in the paper. A few words can be read, however:

Bazam... didan-i ruyat... / Jamalat dida bakhtam... shud / Dast-i... bi-karana / Mujab-i 'aysh dil u [dida?] shud

[I want] to see your face again / Seeing your beauty... made my fortune / Hand... without end / [Their] presence made (my) heart and eye happy

In the upper right corner appears a pasted gold panel, while the lower right corner contains the truncated name of the calligrapher, Safi al-Husayni. This calligrapher is otherwise unknown, although he may have been active in Persia or India sometime during or after the 16th century.

SUBJECT
Arabic script calligraphy
Islamic manuscripts
Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
Nasta'liq
Arabic calligraphy
Islamic calligraphy

MEDIUM
21.3 (w) x 29.8 (h) cm

CALL NUMBER
1-04-713.15.5

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

DIGITAL ID
ascs 005
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/ascs.005

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