{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Descriptive Title(s)", "value": "Letter to the Marquis Wellesley" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 framed sheet Leaf height: 122 cm, width: 79.3 cm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "JISC" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "
A large illuminated address, in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, with the following subscription in English:<\/p>
\u201cSoliman Aga Envoy from His Highness the Pashaw of Bagdad to His Excellency the most Noble the Marquis Wellesly Governor General of India etc., etc.\u201d \u201cCalcutta, 20 September, 1804.\u201d <\/p>
The surface of this sheet is divided into six double compartments (twelve in all) of which the upper four contain an Arabic, the middle four a Persian, and the lower four a Turkish inscription, all beautifully written on a flowered and illuminated ground, the first and last in a large thulth hand, in gilt characters; the Persian in ta'liq , in black characters on a gold ground with floral illuminations. This last runs as follows:<\/p>
کرد انشا مدارس علم و هنر و اعلا
یافته کمال و معرفت ادنا و اعلا
در هفت آسمان ملایک گشتن دعا گو
به لارد ولزلی کشورگشا
۱۸۰۴<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Date of Creation",
"value": "1804"
},
{
"label": "Title",
"value": "Letter to the Marquis Wellesley"
},
{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi"
},
{
"label": "Classmark",
"value": "Add. 286"
},
{
"label": "Subject(s)",
"value": "Diplomatic documents; Calligraphy, Ottoman; Calligraphy, Persian; Calligraphy, Arabic"
},
{
"label": "Format",
"value": "Other"
},
{
"label": "Data Source(s)",
"value": "Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne: A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900 E. G. Browne: A catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1896 abbreviated by the OCIMCO project team."
},
{
"label": "Language(s)",
"value": "Persian, Arabic and Turkish"
},
{
"label": "Layout",
"value": "6 sections in each column"
},
{
"label": "Author(s)",
"value": "Sulaymān Āghāسليمان آغا"
},
{
"label": "Bibliography",
"value": "