Showing posts with label calligraphy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calligraphy. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Pisces Austrinus

detail. France 9th cent.

Illustration of the constellation Pisces Austrinus, the Southern fish, swallowing water...

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Friday, December 18, 2009

Fish-E

"E" Fr. 8th cent. Laud. Misc. Bodl. Lib.

Bird-D

"D"-Fr.MS. 8th cent. Laud Misc. Bodl. Lib.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Upper board inside from Koran, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.853.II

Upper board inside from Koran, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.853.II

This manuscripts is volume two (chapters 19-114) of a decorated two-volume set of the Koran (Qur'an) produced in sub-Saharan (West) Africa in the 13th century AH / 19th CE. Written in Sūdānī script on loose leaves, this manuscript is enclosed in two decorated covers and a leather pouch (satchel).

Al-Qurʾān from Koran, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.853.II, fol.1b