[Persian calligraphy and illustration album]
Contributors: Ḥājī Muḥammad Ḥasanī, active 1658, scribe; Tabrīzī, Ḥusayn, scribe; Reinhardt, Carl, 1856-1903, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1650
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Persian Calligraphy; Early works to 1800; Iranian Illumination of books and manuscripts; Specimens; Persian Manuscripts
Description: Manuscript specimens of Persian songs, writing, illustrations and illuminations by different artists, mounted in a scrapbook.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Various layouts, each work framed and mounted on an orange leaf.

Script: Written chiefly in nastaʻlīq with some samples in shikastah.

Decoration: 14 illustrations using different techniques and 16 calligraphic panels framed in either purple or brown and mounted on reddish-orange leaves. The illustrations include four battle scenes (f. 4v, 5r, 7v, 15r), five depictions of single individuals (f. 8r, 11v, 13v-14v), two drawings of animals (f. 16v, 17r), a flower (f. 12r), and two illustrated scenes from stories (f. 9v-10r).

Origin: Components produced at different times and by different artists; probably compiled as an album in the 19th century. Two calligraphic works are signed and dated: 1) Ibn Muḥammad Riz̤ā Muḥammad, dated 1128 AH [1716 CE] (f. 9r) and 2) Ḥājī Muḥammad Ḥasanī, dated 1069 AH [1658 CE] (f. 11r). A third work is signed [Ḥus]ayn al-Tabrīzī (f. 8v).

Shelfmark: X892.8 M31.

Owner's stamp on f. 12v.

Digital version available with no restrictions Unrestricted online access

Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Purchased for Columbia with funds donated by J. Dyneley Prince, James Speyer and Jacob H. Schiff; accessioned 1905 (bookplate inside front cover).

Persian.

Formerly owned by Carl Reinhardt; purchased from his estate.

Lacquered boards. On the outside covers, two plants with large, red flowers on an orange field with a frame of small flowers on black. On the inside covers, a large, gold sprinkled, yellow flower on a black field with a gilt frame.

Digitized. 2020 Columbia University Libraries committed to preserve