Two illuminated bifolios

HERAT, CIRCA 1500

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Two illuminated bifolios
Herat, circa 1500
Persian manuscript on paper, each folio with 9ll. of elegant black nasta'liq arranged in two columns within gold clouds, the borders and margins with extremely fine gold and blue illumination heightened with polychrome, loss of some colour, one folio fragmentary, mounted
Each folio 10½ x 6½in. (27 x 16cm.) (2)

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