Page with illuminated calligraphy in Ottoman Turkish, Blessings

Ottoman calligraphers often demonstrated their skills by writing different styles and sizes of Arabic script on rectangular sheets of paper, which were then illuminated, mounted on pasteboard with colored and marbled papers, and assembled into accordion fold albums, known as muraqqaʿ. This calligraphic panel containing blessings composed in Ottoman Turkish was written using the thuluth style of script. It contains gold margins and is mounted with lime green-colored paper. The reverse contains marbled paper in three shades of green that match another MFA folio of Ottoman calligraphy, 29.88.