Muraqqa' : A concertina album of calligraphic specimens with illuminated borders
The concertina album, kept within a lacquer binding (for which see following entry) opens in concertina fashion and comprises 28 pages. Each page has bold floral margins, some inhabited by birds and insects, some executed in a characteristically Qajar style, which postdates the examples of calligrap...
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Muraqqa' : A concertina album of calligraphic specimens with illuminated borders [electronic resource]. |
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| Format: | Physical Object |
| Language: | Persian |
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1751.
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SOAS Digital Library.
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| 024 | 7 | |a MS 35342 |2 soas manuscript number | |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Muraqqa' : A concertina album of calligraphic specimens with illuminated borders |h [electronic resource]. |
| 260 | |c 1751. | ||
| 490 | |a Objects of instruction : treasures of SOAS. | ||
| 500 | |a The 'Objects of instruction : the treasures of SOAS' exhibition was funded through a generous gift from the Foyle Foundation and with the support of the Arts & Humanities Research Council. | ||
| 500 | |a Source: A. Contadini (ed.), Objects of Instruction : Treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007, p.102 no.79-80. | ||
| 500 | |a Pages 15-16 of MS 35342 | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a The concertina album, kept within a lacquer binding (for which see following entry) opens in concertina fashion and comprises 28 pages. Each page has bold floral margins, some inhabited by birds and insects, some executed in a characteristically Qajar style, which postdates the examples of calligraphy the pages contain. Some of the border illuminations are copied from the immediately preceding page. The following names and dates are mentioned: p. 1, Shāh Maḥmūd and Mīr'Alī al-Ḥusaynī; p. 4, Faqīr‘Alī; pp. 15, 16, 17, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, dated, on p. 15, 1105 AH (1693 CE) here illustrated; p. 19, Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-lṣfahānī, dated 1087 AH (1676 CE); pp. 21, 22, Mīr'Alī, written in Qazwīn; p. 24, 'Abd al-Rashīd (Text by Anna Contadini, from the exhibition catalogue: Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Anna Contadini, Editor. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007.) | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS, University of London, |c Archives and Special Collections, |d 2015. |f (SOAS Digital Library) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. | ||
| 535 | 1 | |a Archives and Special Collections. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian. | |
| 650 | |a آسیا -- ایران. | ||
| 752 | |a Iran. | ||
| 796 | 3 | |a Donated in 1935 on behalf of the late Mr R.S. Greenshields.. |4 dnr | |
| 830 | 0 | |a SOAS Digital Library. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a REGIONS. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a FORMATS. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a ARTE. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a RME. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a ISOAS. | |
| 852 | |a SOAS | ||
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |y Electronic Resource |
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