Folio from the late Shah Jahan Album with two poems and a couplet from the Divan of Amir Shahi (died 1453)

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Mir Ali Haravi (died ca. 1550)

• Description

  Page of calligraphy from the late Shah Jahan Album; two poems and a couplet from the Divan of AmirShahi; right-hand half of a double-page composition; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; two columns; twelve lines of text; signed by Mir Ali Katib.

  Border: The text is set in gold and green rulings in a pink and turquoise inner frame with gold, floral and leaf scroll, and a gold outer frame, mounted on a brown-colored paperboard with floral cartouches. The text is embellished with horizontal illuminated rectangles and column dividers.

• Origin

  Iran (calligraphy); India (borders)

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1650s, 1640s

• Name

  Haravi, Ali

• Place

  India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Poem, Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians, Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts