A SULTANATE COTTON TALISMANIC JAMA (SHIRT), INDIA, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

A shirt (jama) covered with text written in thuluth, naskh and ghubari scripts, in assorted colors, roundels and cartouches. The inscriptions include quotations from the Quran and the 99 Beautiful names of Allah.
The cotton shirt inscribed with the entire text of the Quran written in black and red ghubari within a lattice of rectangles linked with floral motifs, surah headings written in naskh gold script outlined in black, each shoulder with a floral design containing roundels enclosing the words ya Allah, ya Hafiz, ya Fatih, ya Jabar and ya Latif, nearly each rectangle with a single verse roundel in gold and polychrome at its centre, the lattice on either side on the chest interrupted by two large roundels containing kalimaat al-Tawhid in elongated gold bihari on a red and blue ground, a large cartouche on the backside with v,13 from surah As-Saff in large gold thuluth script outlined in black. Each section of the lattice bordered with a wide band with the 99 names of Allah written in large thuluth gold script outlined in black in clouds reserved against a band of pink, red and blue dots on hatched ground. Length 83 cm. Sleeve to sleeve 104 cm.