feoff document with tughra, property of the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, gold, covering watercolor, ink, paper, handwritten, hand-colored, gold, gouache and ink on paper, height: 180 cm; width: 68 cm, dated: 1150 H, 1737 , 2nd quarter 18th century, Calligraphy, Ornaments, Arabic script, The most expressive secular form of Islamic calligraphy is the Ottoman sultanic document. It is crowned by the richly decorated, triangular hand sign of the sultan - the tughra. Here it is the name of Sultan Mahmud I (1730-1754).

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