Lot 229 AN OTTOMAN CALLIGRAPHER'S LICENSE( IJAZA), TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
Reference: ART3008538
Arabic manuscript on paper, an ijaza featuring a top panel with large black Thuluth script on a green ground decorated with floral motifs. The central panel contains three lines of a Prophetic hadith in black Naskh script. The lower panel bears the signature of the scribe's teacher, Yusuf al-Shukri, granting the ijaza to his student, Sulayman al-Beri. Mounted on cardboard, the manuscript is further embellished with polychrome illuminated floral margins.
Calligraphy panel: 18 by 15 cm.