Ottoman Calligraphic Excercise
A pair of 17th century Ottoman calligraphic exercise, arabic manuscript on paper, a single line written in Thuluth script in black ink, over a panel containing three lines of verse written in smaller Naskhi script with gold roundels marking the verse-endings, interlinear rules in gold, inner margins ruled in gold, black and red ink with brown marbled inner borders, and gold-sprinkled outer borders, approx. 11 x 16 cms.
Provenance: Private Collection London.
A pair of 17th century Ottoman calligraphic exercise, arabic manuscript on paper, a single line written in Thuluth script in black ink, over a panel containing three lines of verse written in smaller Naskhi script with gold roundels marking the verse-endings, interlinear rules in gold, inner margins ruled in gold, black and red ink with brown marbled inner borders, and gold-sprinkled outer borders, approx. 11 x 16 cms.
Provenance: Private Collection London.
