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TXT 545, front
TXT 545, front

Talismanic Shirt

TXT 545

Turkey

17th century

TXT 545, front
TXT 545, back
TXT 545, Mecca & surrounding pilgrimage sites
TXT 545, Medina & surrounding sites

Talismanic Shirt

TXT 545

Turkey

17th century

cotton, inscribed in coloured inks and gold

   

87 x 101cm

The front and back of the shirt are covered with Qur’anic verses, prayers and invocations to God, written in a variety of scripts and arranged into variously shaped panels and cartouches. Two cartouches on the front carry depictions of the Masjid al-Haram at Mecca and the Prophet’s mosque at Medina, each within a decorative frame enclosing minute depictions of other holy sites in the surrounding areas.