IBRAHIM EFENDI NEFES ZADEH (D.1650 AD): RISALA GULZAR-E SAWAB

OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY

Details

IBRAHIM EFENDI NEFES ZADEH (D.1650 AD): RISALA GULZAR-E SAWAB
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
An important treatise on calligraphy, Turkish manuscript on paper, 61ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of black naskh script, titles in red, important phrases underlined in red, with later pagination, colophon signed and dated, in marbled paper covered binding, with pink paper doublures
Folio 8¼ x 5¼in. (20.8 x 13.7cm)

Lot Essay

This work by Ibrahim Efendi Nefes Zadeh, Risala Gulzar-e Sawab ('The Rose Garden of the True Method'), is a celebrated treatise on the history and technicalities of calligraphy. This is the second Ottoman text on calligraphy only after Mustafa 'Ali's Epic Deeds of Artists, the earliest Ottoman text about the calligraphers and painters of the Islamic World, composed in 1587 AD.

More from The Saeed Motamed Collection - Part II

View All