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Ralph H. Pinder-Wilson
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Former Deputy Keeper, Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, London. Author of Persian Painting in the Fifteenth Century.

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The word Calligraphy is written in elegant blue script with decorative flourishes and a leafy design inside the capital C.
Calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting. The term may derive from the Greek words for “beauty” (kallos) and “to write” (graphein). It implies a sure knowledge of the correct form of letters—i.e., the conventional signs by which language can be communicated—and the skill to make them with such…
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