Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Riżā, Ḥasan, active 1889
  رضا، حسن

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135061635
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_058.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1889 or 1890

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Calligraphic album of a selection of aphorisms of the Prophet Muḥammad written by the calligrapher Ḥasan Riżā. The pages are heavy card with the first and last leaf as a single sheet and all other leaves as sets of two sheets adhered together with ribbon lining the edges. The paired leaves are all beginning to separate.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

The textblock of each page is border-ruled in gold, bright pink, gold, blue; a light blue paper frame is fitted to each page with a dark blue ribbon along the page edges. Small headpiece of gold foliate fill on a blue half circle with a scalloped edge (f. 1v); smaller script lines are inset with the space between the line ends and the border-rule decorated with gold and polychrome foliate fill on a blue background, outlined in gold. Gold roundels with a variety of decorative flourishes punctuate the text and small gold flowers appear throughout.

Script

Subjects topical

• Quotations, Arabic
• Calligraphy, Ottoman

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Special Collections BV 58: Calligraphic album. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Special Collections BV 58: Calligraphic album.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Calligraphic album].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Small headpiece
• fol. 1v — Foliate fill
• fol. 2r — Foliate fill
• fol. 2v — Foliate fill
• fol. 3r — Foliate fill
• fol. 3v — Foliate fill
• fol. 4r — Foliate fill
• fol. 4v — Foliate fill
• fol. 5r — Foliate fill
• fol. 5v — Foliate fill
• fol. 6r — Foliate fill
• fol. 6v — Foliate fill
• fol. 7r — Foliate fill
• fol. 7v — Foliate fill