A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION (LEVHA)

SIGNED HASAN RIDA SHUMNI, OTTOMAN BULGARIA, DATED AH 1304/1886-87 AD

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A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION (LEVHA)
SIGNED HASAN RIDA SHUMNI, OTTOMAN BULGARIA, DATED AH 1304/1886-87 AD
Ink and watercolour on brown paper, the composition arranged around the name of the Prophet Muhammad written in the form of an imperial tughra, surrounded by praises to the Prophet written in jali thuluth script, the spandrels with palmette scrolls on green ground, the borders with calligraphic panels with Ottoman Turkish poetry, with gilt highlights, signed in the lower left corner, framed and glazed
18 ¼in. (46.5cm.) square

Lot Essay

The town from which the scribe of this panel was,, now in Bulgaria, was an important centre of Islamic culture in the Ottoman Balkans. For further discussion on qur'an production in Shumen, see Tim Stanley, Shumen as a Center of Qur'an production in the 19th Century, M. Ugur Derman Festschrift: Papers Presented on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth Birthday. ed. by Irvin Cemil Schick Istanbul Sabanci Universitesi, 2000, pp. 484-512

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