Page with calligraphy

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 albums known as muraqqqaʿ. This example of a calligraphic panel, or qit'a, was composed by Ottoman calligrapher, Çömez Mustafa Vâsıf (d. 1853) using the thuluth style of script for the heading and the naskh style for the three small lines of script. This calligraphic panel, written with black ink on vibrant yellow paper, is bordered by thin pink papers speckled with gold leaf and an outter border made from more ornate and technically complex Ottoman marbled papers.