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| Keywords: Indian nasta'liq script.jpg en This calligraphic fragment belongs to a series of twenty-two literary compositions or letters insha' written by the calligraphers named Mir Kalan Khan Zaman son of Khan Khanan Qa'im Khan Lutfallah Khan and Mahabat Khan 1-84-154 49 1-84-154 53-54 1-87-154 146a-f and 1-88-154 30 Judging from the script Indian nasta'liq a seal impression bearing the date 1113/1701-2 1-87-154 146a R and a letter mentioning the city of Janpur in India it appears that these writings were executed in India during the 18th-century Furthermore if one were to identify the calligrapher Mir Kalan as the renowned painter active during the mid-18th century in Lucknow then this identification would add further support to identifying this calligraphic series in the Library of Congress' collection as a corpus of materials produced by several writers active in 18th-century India Script Indian nasta'liq LOC-calligraphy ascs 168 Calligrapher Khan Zaman century 18 PD-Art Nastaliq Library of Congress Arabic Persian and Ottoman calligraphy collection Manuscripts in India | ||||
