Verses by Baba Tahir, 16th-17th centuries, Calligraphy, Arabic, Calligraphy, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian, Washington (), Iran, Arabic script calligraphy, Illuminated Islamic manuscripts, Islamic calligraphy, Islamic manuscripts, Nasta'liq, Persian verses by Baba Tahir, 11th-century Persian poet, written in black nasta'liq script in the 16th- or 17th- century Iran., Dimensions of Written Surface: 13 (w) x 21 (h) cm, I am that ant which is crushed underfoot / Not the bee from whose sting they suffer, Man u murum ka dar payam bamaland / Na zanburum ka az nasham banaland, Other Persian verse
Verses by Baba Tahir, 16th-17th centuries, Calligraphy, Arabic, Calligraphy, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian, Washington (), Iran, Arabic script calligraphy, Illuminated Islamic manuscripts, Islamic calligraphy, Islamic manuscripts, Nasta'liq, Persian verses by Baba Tahir, 11th-century Persian poet, written in black nasta'liq script in the 16th- or 17th- century Iran., Dimensions of Written Surface: 13 (w) x 21 (h) cm, I am that ant which is crushed underfoot / Not the bee from whose sting they suffer, Man u murum ka dar payam bamaland / Na zanburum ka az nasham banaland, Other Persian verses appear both above and below the central panel, and in the left vertical a register contains an elaborate prose prayer (du'a) wishing a king prosperity and happiness., The fragment is neither dated nor signed. However, it appears to have been produced in 16th- or 17th- century Iran and placed later into an album (muraqqa') of calligraphies., The texts are executed in black nasta'liq script on variously colored papers decorated with designs in gold paint, cut out individually and pasted together into one composition. Triangular areas left empty by the intersection of diagonal lines of text and rectangular frames are filled with blue and gold illumination. The whole text panel is pasted to a larger sheet of cream-colored paper decorated with gold flecks and backed with cardboard., This calligraphic fragment includes various excerpts in both prose and verse. In the central blue panel, verses by the 11th-century Persian poet Baba Tahir describe his helplessness and inferiority:, Script: nasta'liq, , 1 volume; (w) x (h) cm
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