A comparative study on calligraphy of Rashida Shahnama with Abdul Rashid Dailami's calligraphy style

Writing Shahnama was the custom and cultural policy of Iranian governors and also the art of book illustration in Isfahan school contains very beautiful samples and valuable pictorial of this Iranian great and national heroic work. RashidaShahname is one of the important and pictorial manuscripts of Safavid period، and belongs to 11th century of lunar hegira. Since its writing is relative to Abdol Rashid Dalimi، this Shahnama is known as Rashida Shahname. Motamedodole، head of the library and secretary of Fath Ali shah Qajar، in the lining page of book accompanying has customized this assignment ascription. While، adaptation and comparison of calligraphy method of Shahname Rashida with Abdol Rashid Deilami''s calligraphy (such as chehel-kallameh and Tohfat-ol-Araghein)، illustrates calligraphy differences of these works. On the other hand، historical evidences are disapproved with the accuracy of the hypothesis that says this book has been written by Abdol Rashid Dalimi. Base on this point، about these manuscripts without number، offering absolute view is difficult، and there is possibility of errors، so this paper tries to show that according to well- documented related to Abdol Rashid'' calligraphy characteristics with calligraphy of mentioned Shahnameh، calligraphy of this Shahnameh is not belong to Abdol Rashid Dalimi. In order to reach the goals of this article، comparative methods، has been used. So we’ve gathered various information about characteristics of calligraphy in above- mentioned version and considered them to find out، whether ascription of this calligraphy to Rashida is correct or not.