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Keywords: Siyah Mashq, c. 1850-1900.jpg author en This calligraphic practice sheet includes a number of diagonal words and letters used in combinations facing upwards and downwards on the folio The common Persian cursive script nasta'liq is favored here over the more broken shikastah script These sheets -- known as siyah mashq lit black practice in Persian -- were entirely covered with writing as a means to practice calligraphy and conserve paper In time they became collectible items and thus were signed and dated this fragment however does not appear signed or dated Many fragments such as this one were provided with a variety of decorative borders and pasted to sheets ornamented with plants or flowers painted in gold For example a number of siyah mashq sheets executed at the turn of the 17th century by the great Iranian master of nasta'liq script 'Imad al-Hasani d 1024/1615 were preserved and provided with illumination by Muhammad Hadi ca 1160-1172/1747-1759 Akimushkin 1996 65 70 87 and 91 As an established genre practice sheets abided to certain rules of formal compositions largely guided by rhythm and repetition Safwat 1996 32 Although siyah mashq sheets survive from ca 1600 they seem to have been a particularly popular genre during the second half of the 19th century i e during the artistic revival spearheaded by the Qajar ruler Nasir al-Din Shah who reigned 1848-1896 Mehdi Zadeh 1369/1950 44-45 and 54-55; and Diba and Ekhtiar 1998 239-41 A number of other siyah mashq sheets are held in the Library of Congress See in particular 1-87-154 45 1-84-154 46 1-85-154 88 1-87-154 142 and 1-86-154 144 سیاه ŒÙ…شق circa 1850 1900 paper object history exhibition history credit line 30 9 w x 47 5 h cm accession number place of creation LOC-calligraphy ascs 092 Custom license marker 2014 07 22 PD-old Uploaded with UploadWizard Siyah mashq Nastaliq Islamic manuscripts Illuminated Islamic manuscripts Persian calligraphy Library of Congress Arabic Persian and Ottoman calligraphy collection 19th-century illuminated manuscripts
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