MAKE A MEME View Large Image Nasta'liq script 3.jpg en This calligraphic fragment includes a lover's lament about his beloved's indifference The verses are executed in black nasta'liq script on a beige paper decorated with bird and leaf designs painted in gold The main ...
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Keywords: Nasta'liq script 3.jpg en This calligraphic fragment includes a lover's lament about his beloved's indifference The verses are executed in black nasta'liq script on a beige paper decorated with bird and leaf designs painted in gold The main text panel is bordered by a number of other verses in both diagonal and vertical registers forming a frame The entire composition is pasted to a larger sheet of paper decorated with a pounced vegetal motif in green and backed by cardboard The fragment is neither dated nor signed However it may have been produced in Iran during the 16th or 17th century LOC-image ascs 175 Unknown Calligrapher 16th-17th centuries PD-Art Nastaliq Library of Congress Arabic Persian and Ottoman calligraphy collection Persian calligraphy Persian manuscripts Manuscripts in Iran Poems in Persian
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