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Hilyah, with Four Certificates of Calligraphic Merit

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Hilyah, with Four Certificates of Calligraphic Merit  wikidata:Q107663465 reasonator:Q107663465
Title
Hilyah, with Four Certificates of Calligraphic Merit
label QS:Len,"Hilyah, with Four Certificates of Calligraphic Merit"
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Object type Hilya Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Hilyah, with Four Certificates of Calligraphic Merit

ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper, with borders of tinted paper; mounted on board

hilyah in muhaqqaq, thulth and naskh scripts; certificates in riqa‘

59.4 x 33.4cm

This hilyah (hilye-i sherife) is in effect an examination piece, submitted by the calligrapher Mehmed Zuhdi to his master, Mehmed Salih Shukri, and three other calligraphers – Hafiz ‘Ali Reza, Mehmed Hilmi and Mehmed Recai (Raja’i). The four panels at the bottom of the piece bear their licences permitting Zuhdi to sign as a traditionally trained and accomplished calligrapher (ijazah bi-wad‘ al-kitbah). This meant that the calligrapher could sign his work using the verb katabahu (‘written by’), a term which – in the Ottoman world at least – was restricted to licensed scribes.
Date 1850 Edit this at Wikidata
institution QS:P195,Q63160499
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Place of creation Ottoman Empire Edit this at Wikidata
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Source Khalili Collections
Author Khalili Collections

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