

Artwork details
- Date:
- 1570 - 1590
- Medium:
- paper, brush
- Dimensions:
- 843 × 1459 px
- Museum record:
- View original



Persian ruba‘i (quatrain) by Maulana Muḥammad Murshidi Zawara’i (Persian, late 1500s–early 1600s) (verso)

Poetry Fragment (Qit'a) written in Nasta'liq Script

Calligraphy of Lyrical Quatrains (verso)

Persian Quatrains (Rubayi) and Calligraphic Exercises (recto)

Calligraphy of a ghazal of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi (Indian, 1253–1325) (verso)

Illuminated page (verso), from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al- Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492) with two Persian masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)

Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish Poems in Praise of Wine (verso)

Calligraphy from a ghazal of Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (Persian, 1213–1289) and a verse from the Tuhfat al-ahrar (The Gift of the Free) of Abd al-Rahman Jami (verso)

Persian Couplets (recto), Calligraphy, Persian Verses; Single Page Manuscript

Vier diagonale regels Perzische kalligrafie

Page from a Copy of The Qur'an

Right-Hand Page from the Qur'an

Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)

Calligraphy: A Page of Text from Sadi's Bustan (verso)

Text Page, Persian Verses (verso) in an Anthology with some verses from Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) of Jami; The Fifth Throne Yusuf and Zulaykha

Persian Verse (khamriyya) (verso)

Persian Verses (verso)

Sketch of a Young Man and Persian Calligraphy

Kalligrafische tekst

Illuminated opening page (folio 1 verso) and 131 folios with Persian text, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

Page from a copy of the Qur'an

Persian verses from a Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) of Jami (d. 1492) (recto)

Kalligrafische tekst

Persian calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer, from the Late Shah Jahan Album