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Fahri of Bursa

Page from a Poetry Album, ottoman

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  • Fahri of Bursa

Title

Page from a Poetry Album

Year

ottoman

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Gold paper script on blue paper

Techniques

  • Gold paper script on blue paper

Supports

  • paper mounted as an album page

Dimensions

17.1 x 10.5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches) Overall, mat size: A; Asian Art Department Carpenter Inventory and Cataloging Project 2004-2005; Ove

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription Text/Poem: O Lord, may your felicity be daily increasing; may your noble foot be over the celestial sphere
Since you command the good and evil of the age, may your command and destiny be of the same content.
Jami?
(Translations by Wheeler Thackston, Professor of Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University)

Signature: Signed Fahri of Bursa

Inscription: Inscribed number in ink on label adhered verso, top right: P606A

Place

Origin: Turkey

Type

  • Manuscripts

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

17.490

Page from a Poetry Album

Manual / Issue 4

Blue
Read Online

Glimpses of Grandeur

Courtly Arts of the Later Islamic Empires

Inscription Text/Poem: O Lord, may your felicity be daily increasing; may your noble foot be over the celestial sphere
Since you command the good and evil of the age, may your command and destiny be of the same content.
Jami?
(Translations by Wheeler Thackston, Professor of Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University)

Signature: Signed Fahri of Bursa

Inscription: Inscribed number in ink on label adhered verso, top right: P606A

Origin: Turkey

Publications

Manual / Issue 4

Blue
Read Online

Glimpses of Grandeur

Courtly Arts of the Later Islamic Empires

Exhibition History

Text, Paratext, and Images

September 1, 2020 - July 24, 2021

Ottoman Turkish Art

September 25, 1987 - January 24, 1988

Fahri of Bursa

Papercut from a Poetry Album, ottoman

Fahri of Bursa

Papercut from a poetry album, ottoman

Fahri of Bursa

Papercut from a Poetry Album, ottoman
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