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SIGNED 'ARAB MUHAMMAD AL-HARAWI, SAMARQAND, TIMURID CENTRAL ASIA, 15TH/EARLY16TH CENTURY
Details
THE FORTY SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET WITH PERSIAN TRANSLATION BY JAMI
SIGNED 'ARAB MUHAMMAD AL-HARAWI, SAMARQAND, TIMURID CENTRAL ASIA, 15TH/EARLY16TH CENTURY
Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 8ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 3ll. of large black thuluth script divided by lines of smaller black nasta'liq script written horizontally or on the diagonal, each line within black-ruled gold cartouches, text within black, gold and green frame, with coloured paper margins, first folio with nasta'liq quatrain, last folio with calligraphic exercise, in marbled paper covers with tulips over brown ground
Text panel 6 1/8 x 3½in. (15.4 x 8.7cm.); folio 9¾ x 6in. (24.5 x 15.2cm.)
SIGNED 'ARAB MUHAMMAD AL-HARAWI, SAMARQAND, TIMURID CENTRAL ASIA, 15TH/EARLY16TH CENTURY
Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 8ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 3ll. of large black thuluth script divided by lines of smaller black nasta'liq script written horizontally or on the diagonal, each line within black-ruled gold cartouches, text within black, gold and green frame, with coloured paper margins, first folio with nasta'liq quatrain, last folio with calligraphic exercise, in marbled paper covers with tulips over brown ground
Text panel 6 1/8 x 3½in. (15.4 x 8.7cm.); folio 9¾ x 6in. (24.5 x 15.2cm.)
Provenance
The Library of the Late Djafar Ghazi, sold in these Rooms, 8 October 2010, lot 9