Resaleh dar Osool va Ghavaed-e Khotoot

• Persian Title: رساله در اصول و قواعد خطوط
• Transliterated Title: Risālah dar uṣūl va qavāʿid-i khuṭūṭ
• English Title: Treatise on the Principles and Rules of Calligraphic Scripts
• Author: Anonymous (9th century A.H.)
• Editor: ʿAlī Ṣafarī Āq-Qalʿah
• Language: Persian
• ISBN: 978-600-203-263-8
• Publication Year: 2022
• Pages: 195
• Format: PDF
• Category: Manuscript Studies / Calligraphy
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 377

【Summary】

Risālah dar uṣūl va qavāʿid-i khuṭūṭ is among the most valuable early Persian texts devoted to the instruction of calligraphy. Although the author’s identity is unknown, the treatise is known to have been composed around the mid-ninth century A.H. It systematically teaches the writing of isolated letters and letter combinations in the principal scripts (al-khuṭūṭ al-sitta), with particular emphasis on the thuluth script.

The concluding section of the work is devoted to instruction in two additional hands: taʿlīq (following the method of Tāj al-Salmānī) and naskh-taʿlīq, as practiced in the first half of the ninth century A.H., bringing the total number of scripts taught in the treatise to eight. Both the textual explanations and the model letterforms remain pedagogically useful even today, especially for the study of thuluth and the canonical scripts.

From the perspective of calligraphic history and biographical studies, the treatise also preserves valuable information, including a reference to Ibn Asad, the teacher of Ibn al-Bawwāb. Accordingly, the editor’s introduction provides biographical notes on Ibn Asad and presents a surviving manuscript written in his hand.