AN ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY SCROLL, OTTOMAN, 19TH CENTURY

An Arabic calligraphy board divided into five sections, in which: the first section: Basmala written in Altughara script, in black and gold, surrounded by a decoration of roses and leaves, and framed by the vv. Al-Kursi Quran 2 surah Al-Baqarah. The second section: surah Al-Naba’a is written in ten lines, and on the two sides in a vertical column, surah Al-Kafirun and surah Al-Nas are written. The third section: it contains the surah Al-Naba’a in the form of a circle in blue, surrounded by a larger circle in golden color, and the voids were filled with a decoration of roses and leaves, and the surahs of the Al-Kafirun and Al-Nas on the two sides are completed. The fourth section: it contains surah Al-Alaq in eight lines, and on both sides are surah Al-Ikhlas and surah Al-Falaq in a vertical column. The fifth section: it contains surah Al-Qadr in four lines. The painting is written in thuluth script in black, gold, blue, red and white color on a roll. 158 by 30 cm.