MUFRADAT

SIGNED SHEIKH KAMAL 'ABD AL-HAQQ (AL-SABZAWARI), PROBABLY ASTARABAD, IRAN, DATED AH 933/1526-27 AD

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MUFRADAT
SIGNED SHEIKH KAMAL 'ABD AL-HAQQ (AL-SABZAWARI), PROBABLY ASTARABAD, IRAN, DATED AH 933/1526-27 AD
Calligraphic exercise on the letters of the alphabet, manuscript on paper, 6ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 4 wide panels containing a single line of large strong black thuluth in clouds reserved against a ground of scrolling blue vine and gold cintamani motifs, the large lines alternated with shorter panels, two with a single line of naskh verging on riq'a, and the central one with 2ll. of naskh, the shorter panels framed with boxes of polychrome illumination, text panels laid down between gold, black and blue rules on wide pink margins, a laid down panel of polychrome illumination at beginning, final folio signed and dated, in later gold illuminated brown morocco decorated with gilt stamped central medallion, spandrels and border cartouches, green morocco doublures, manuscript loose in binding
Text panel 9 1/8 x 6 1/8in. (23.3 x 15.5cm.); folio 13 3/8 x 8 7/8in. (34.3 x 22.6cm.)

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A prayer book in the Walters Art Museum copied by the same calligrapher is dated to AH 941/1534-35 AD, (inv. MSW.579). The colophon of the prayer book states that it was copied in Astarabad, present-day Gorgan in North East Iran. It also states that Sheikh Kamal was the calligrapher as well as the illuminator for that manuscript. The illumination on our ufradatnama and that on the prayer book are remarkably similar, which suggests that Sheikh Kamal was also responsible for the illumination on our copy.