File:“Duʻā.” Prayer for a King WDL6978.png
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Size of this preview: 395 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 158 × 240 pixels | 316 × 480 pixels | 506 × 768 pixels | 1,024 × 1,555 pixels.
Original file (1,024 × 1,555 pixels, file size: 2.93 MB, MIME type: image/png)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Summary
[edit]“Duʻā.” Prayer for a King | |
---|---|
Artist |
Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3); Calligrapher: Kamal al-Din (Ikhtiyar al-Munshi) |
Title |
“Duʻā.” Prayer for a King |
Description |
English: This calligraphic fragment includes a prayer in Arabic for a king (and his many honorific epithets). The top panel reproduces exactly the lower panel, suggesting that a pounce or stencil was used for these two calligraphic replicas. Both panels are individually cut out, provided with a separating horizontal line and an illuminated border, and they are pasted to a green sheet of paper decorated with flecks of gold and backed by cardboard. Both panels also are executed in a version of the "hanging" taʻliq script called tarassul, in which letters such as the alif (a) and the lām (l) are connected by large looping ligatures. The letters themselves are not filled in with ink; rather, they are outlined in gold on the beige paper. For this reason, the calligrapher Kamal al-Din Husayn has noted in the lower-right corner of the upper calligraphic panel that he has hararahu (outlined), rather than katabahu or raqamahu (written) the composition. Kamal al-Din's laqab (nickname), Ikhtiyar al-Munshi (the Elderly Secretary), also appears in gold-outlined script in the lower-right corners of both calligraphic panels, in which he states that he also mashaqahu (wrote) the composition. Therefore, Kamal al-Din was responsible both for the writing and the outlining of the composition. Kamal al-Din Husayn (died 974 AH, 1566‒67 AD) was a calligrapher during the reign of the Safavid ruler, Shah Tahmasp I (reigned 1524‒76). The monarch supported his work in Tabriz and offered him a number of rewards, which Kamal al-Din refused. He also made him his personal secretary and bestowed upon him the honorific epithet Ikhtiyar al-Munshi al-Sultani (the Elderly, Royal Secretary). Even though he was blind in one eye, he was a master of all calligraphic scripts, especially nastaʻliq. Judging from this specimen—as well as others in the Library of Congress and the Sackler Gallery of Art—he also was a master of outlined tarassul. He was a contemporary of Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri, one of whose works is also held in the collections of the Library of Congress. |
Date |
between 1500 and 1550 date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium | Manuscript |
Dimensions |
Dimensions of written surface: height: 22.1 cm (8.7 in); width: 12.5 cm (4.9 in) dimensions QS:P2048,22.1U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,12.5U174728 |
Collection | Library of Congress |
Current location |
Selections of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Calligraphy |
Inscriptions | حرّره کمالالدّین |
References | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/dlc.6978 |
Source/Photographer |
|
Licensing
[edit]
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 22:30, 4 December 2020 | 1,024 × 1,555 (2.93 MB) | Hanooz (talk | contribs) | Transferred from https://dl.wdl.org/6978.png |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 2 pages use this file: