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TWO CALLIGRAPHIC FOLIOS FROM A TIMURID MANUSCRIPT
Lot 150

TWO CALLIGRAPHIC FOLIOS FROM A TIMURID MANUSCRIPT

ONE SIGNED 'AZIZI, TIMURID HERAT, 15TH CENTURY

Closed26 April 2012

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TWO CALLIGRAPHIC FOLIOS FROM A TIMURID MANUSCRIPT
ONE SIGNED 'AZIZI, TIMURID HERAT, 15TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on paper, each folio with lines of elegant nasta'liq written both horizontally and on the diagonal, each set within panels of gold and polychrome illumination, one signed and stating that it was copied in the dar al-sultaneh Herat, laid down within gold rules on pink and silver speckled margins, mounted, framed and glazed
Panels 6¼ x 3¼in. (15.5 x 7.9cm.) (2)

Specialist note

The 'Azizi who signed one of these panels is likely to be Khawaja 'Abd al-Aziz, son of Khawaja 'Abd al-Wahhab. He is recorded in the preface of the Amir Ghayb Beg Album (Topkapi Palace Museum Library, H.2161), by Mir Sayyid Ahmad (Wheeler M. Thackston, Album Prefaces and other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters, 2001, p. 27).