Page of illuminated calligraphy
Late 18th–19th century
Object PlaceIran
Medium/TechniqueInk, color and gold on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 23.8 × 15 cm (9 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
Credit LineEverett Fund
Accession number86.72
On View
Not on viewClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
Provenance1886, purchased by the MFA from Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (b.1837-d.1914), Burlington, VT. (Accession date: January 1, 1886)
Recto early 16th century; verso about 1420–40; mounted in album about 1544–45
16th century
Ömer b. Abdurrahman
18th century
Ṣālih Efendi-zāde Meḥmed Emīn
about 1725
Hâfız Osman
1697 A.D./ 1108 A.H.
Shaykh Hamdullâh
17th century
Yāqūt al-Musta‘ṣimī
14th–15th century