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| Keywords: Shikastah Nasta'liq Script.gif en This calligraphic fragment appears to comprise an excerpt from Shaykh Sa'di's d 691/1292 Gulistan The Rose Garden in which he provides readers with a variety of anecdotes or stories hikayat with moral lessons This text describes the anger of a king toward his servant and his desire to punish him upon which the servant writes a letter to stress his faithfulness and to seek forgiveness This particular story stresses the virtue of royal clemency The text is executed in black shikastah-nasta'liq on a cream-colored paper http //memory loc gov/cgi-bin/ampage collId ascs fileName 191/ascs191 db recNum 0 itemLink D ascsbib 17 /temp/~intldl_frCJ Library of Congress Unknown Calligrapher 17th-18th centuries PD-Art Shekasteh Nasta'liq Library of Congress Arabic Persian and Ottoman calligraphy collection Persian calligraphy Persian manuscripts | ||||
