AN INDIAN MURAQQA’ ALBUM WITH NASTA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHY
Northern and Central India, 19th century, assembled in the 20th century

AN INDIAN MURAQQA’ ALBUM WITH NASTA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHY
Northern and Central India, 19th century, assembled in the 20th century

Persian manuscript on paper, 8ff., with 16 calligraphic panels laid on polychrome cards, each folio with poetic quatrains in bold nasta’liq and shikasteh nasta’liq scripts, one folio a facsimile of a signed piece by the calligrapher Imad Al-Hasani, others variously illuminated in polychromes and gold, bearing signatures and seals including Fadawi Zafar Ullah, dated 1223 AH (1808 AD), Seyyed Hosseini Padshah, Mushtaq Ahmad, Abdul Rashid, Imad Al-Hasani, Mu’jiz Raqam in the ‘span’ of Deccan, Mir Fazl Ali Urf Abdul Rahman, dated 9 Rajab 1226 AH (30 July 1811 AD), bound with green tape, in printed end paper, in burgundy binding, spine and corners of deep burgundy calf, each panel 28cm x 18cm including the album borders.

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Dimensions: each panel 28cm x 18cm including the album borders