Two Pages from an Album

Location: India

Materials: ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 36.6 x 30cm (folio 1); and 36.6 x 33.3cm (folio 2)

Accession Number: CAL 259

Other Notes:

The text on folio 1, verso, reads, ‘In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful’; that on folio 2, recto, ‘the Greatest of Names, the All-Knowing, the Wise’. Qur’anic verses, written in ghubar script, fill out the shapes of the letters.

Script:

written in thulth, outlined in gold and filled with ghubar script

Bibliography:

N.F. Safwat, The Art of the Pen. Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume V, London 1996, cat.127–8, pp.186–8.