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Lot Essay
Nineteen panels are signed by Muhammad Shafi' under this name of directly as Mirza Kuchak. Most dated panels are dated AH 1230 with the exception of one, an early panel by the master dated AH 1218.
Panels by other scribes comprise:
f.3r: Zayn al-'Abidin, Rabi' I AH 1222 in Isfahan f.5v: Ahmad al-Nayrizi (possibly added), AH 1124 f.8v: Muhammad Hadi al-IsfahaniR
Muhammad Shafi' known as Visal Shirazi, (1782-1846) is considered one of the most famous calligraphers, scholars and poets of the 19th century. He is praised by different biographers on his knowledge of music, singing, mathematics, painting, occult sciences and grammar. He wrote all seven styles, and in different colour inks, and illuminated, and painted manuscripts himself. Visal trained many in shikasteh and nasta'liq scripts, though his Nayrizi-style naskh script was particularly treasured. It is recorded that he copied 67 Qur'ans, 700 prayer books and divans of various poets (Mehdi Bayani, ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vols. III, Tehran 1348 , pp. 755-62; IV, 1358 sh., pp. 165-67; and Bayani, et al, The Decorated Word, part two, N.D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, London 2009 , p. 72).
Panels by other scribes comprise:
f.3r: Zayn al-'Abidin, Rabi' I AH 1222 in Isfahan f.5v: Ahmad al-Nayrizi (possibly added), AH 1124 f.8v: Muhammad Hadi al-IsfahaniR
Muhammad Shafi' known as Visal Shirazi, (1782-1846) is considered one of the most famous calligraphers, scholars and poets of the 19th century. He is praised by different biographers on his knowledge of music, singing, mathematics, painting, occult sciences and grammar. He wrote all seven styles, and in different colour inks, and illuminated, and painted manuscripts himself. Visal trained many in shikasteh and nasta'liq scripts, though his Nayrizi-style naskh script was particularly treasured. It is recorded that he copied 67 Qur'ans, 700 prayer books and divans of various poets (Mehdi Bayani, ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vols. III, Tehran 1348 , pp. 755-62; IV, 1358 sh., pp. 165-67; and Bayani, et al, The Decorated Word, part two, N.D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, London 2009 , p. 72).