Manuscripts Gallery
Visitors enter this gallery through a magnificent carved wooden doorway from Jhang region through the Contemporary Paintings of Contemporary paintings.
The display is organized into three main sections: the Quranic, Persian and miscellaneous manuscripts. The last section holds manuscripts such as Hadith, history, geography, encyclopedias, guides, biography and literature (mostly poetry). Quranic manuscripts present Arabic scripts such as Kufic, Magharabi, Naskh and Bahar. Most of the other manuscripts have been inscribed either in Naskh and Nastāliq or some variant of the two. Most manuscripts are illuminated while some are illustrated.
The gallery also represents a unique collection of calligraphies, many of these by renowned calligraphers, such as Abdullah-al-Hussaini, Abdullah Hussaini, Abdul Rashid Dailmi, Muhammad Afzal Lahori, Muhammad Baqir, Muhammad Murad, Imam Verdi, Abdul Majeed Perveen Raqam, Taj-ul-din Zareen Raqam, Hafiz Yousaf Sadidi, Nafees-ul-Husaini, Khurshid Alam Khurshid Raqam, and Gohar Kalam etc. The calligraphies are mostly in Kufic, Maghrabi, Naskh, Bahar, Tughra, Nastāliq, Maakus, Tāliq, Nakhun, Ghubar, Shikesta and Suls styles and their several sub-styles.
