Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
ShareThis
Javascript must be enabled to continue!

Rubaiyyat Anthology (text, recto and verso), illuminated folio from a manuscript of Chaghatai poetry

View through Harvard Museums
This is an illuminated folio from a manuscript of poetry, particularly an anthology that contains rubaiyyat (quatrains) in Chaghatai. It is copied in fine nastaliq script in two columns. The heading for the section and the area after the end of the text are illuminated with floral decorations.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the Estate of Margaret F. Schroeder
Title: Rubaiyyat Anthology (text, recto and verso), illuminated folio from a manuscript of Chaghatai poetry
Description:
This is an illuminated folio from a manuscript of poetry, particularly an anthology that contains rubaiyyat (quatrains) in Chaghatai.
It is copied in fine nastaliq script in two columns.
The heading for the section and the area after the end of the text are illuminated with floral decorations.

Back to Top