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Collection Area Visual Arts Language Not applicable Subject Calligraphy

1. Add Or 346

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Add Or 346
Title:
Scribe seated on a striped rug writing a manuscript.
Scope & Content:
Scribe seated on a striped rug writing a manuscript. Inscribed: ‘A Persian Scribe.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1815-1820
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 691

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Add Or 691
Title:
Scribe and wife; the man carries a palm-leaf and stylus
Scope & Content:
Scribe and wife; the man carries a palm leaf and stylus. Inscribed: ‘A Conicopoly & his Wife or Writing Master.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1805
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 2542

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Add Or 2542
Title:
(unillustrated text page from the Bhagavata Purana)
Scope & Content:
Numbered.’f.122’: an unillustrated text page.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 2775

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Add Or 2775
Title:
A page of calligraphy, two lines of Dakhni Urdu in naskhi script, a verse from Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah’s Kitab-i Nauras, signed Jug.
Scope & Content:
A page of calligraphy, two lines of Dakhni Urdu in naskhi script, a verse from Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah’s ‘Kitab-i Nauras’, signed ‘Jug’. Inscribed on reverse in nasta‘liq: ‘‘abd al-latif’, and: ‘This is the writing of Ibrahim Jugudguroo. This was purchased from the grandson of Mohamed Ali Moonshee ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 2869

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Add Or 2869
Title:
Panel of nasta'liq Persian calligraphy in decoupe work, with a decoupe border.
Scope & Content:
Panel of decoupé work, with ‘nasta’liq’ Persian text in central cartouche and in end panels cut out in white paper over a ground coloured blue and gold, with a border of decoupé floral scroll over olive green. Let into a later plain album page. Inscribed on reverse in an 18th century hand: ‘A ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1550-1600
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3129, f.2

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Add Or 3129, f.2
Title:
Gold formal landscape with animals. Dara Shikoh's dedicatory inscription to Nadira Banu Begum.
Scope & Content:
Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds, lynxes, foxes and lions; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1630-40. Executed in gold, with an inscription (‘see above)’ which has been obliterated in gold; the gold has subsequently worn away, particularly over the black ink o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3129, f.2v

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Add Or 3129, f.2v
Title:
Right hand half of a double page illuminated heading with fine floral and arabesque decoration.
Scope & Content:
The right-hand half of a double page illuminated heading with fine floral and arabesque decoration in colours and gold. Mughal, c.1610-30. The seven lines of ‘nasta‘liq,’ an extract from a manual of Sufism, have been set with interlinear floral illumination in a different ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1610-1630
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 3129, f.3

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Add Or 3129, f.3
Title:
Quatrain written in nasta‘liq calligraphy by Muhammad Salih for his son; background of floral arabesques on gold; lines of verse in smaller nasta‘liq set alongside.. Artist(s): Muhammad Salih (fl.c.1630-1640)
Scope & Content:
Quatrain written in ‘nasta‘liq’ calligraphy by Muhammad Salih for his son; background of floral arabesques on gold; lines of verse in smaller ‘nasta‘liq’ set alongside. 223 by 146 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 3129, f.4v

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Add Or 3129, f.4v
Title:
A quatrain in nasta‘liq calligraphy; background of floral and hatched decoration in gold and pink.
Scope & Content:
A quatrain in ‘nasta‘liq’ calligraphy; background of floral and hatched decoration in gold and pink. 151 by 100 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 3129, f.5

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Add Or 3129, f.5
Title:
Ten lines of masnavi verse in nasta‘liq calligraphy, six of the lines set diagonally.
Scope & Content:
Ten lines of ‘masnavi’ verse in ‘nasta‘liq’ calligraphy, six of the lines set diagonally; background of floral arabesques on gold; the lines of calligraphy are not contiguous, but have been reset. 152 by 99 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item