Lot 22
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THE FORTY TRADITIONS OF THE PROPHET AND THEIR PERSIAN TRANSLATIONS BY JAMI'
A PRIVATE COLLECTION DONATED TO BENEFIT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
THE FORTY TRADITIONS OF THE PROPHET AND THEIR PERSIAN TRANSLATIONS BY JAMI'

COPIED BY SALIM [AL-KATIB], SAFAVID IRAN, DATED TUESDAY 23 SHA'BAN AH 977/31 JANUARY 1570 AD

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THE FORTY TRADITIONS OF THE PROPHET AND THEIR PERSIAN TRANSLATIONS BY JAMI'
COPIED BY SALIM [AL-KATIB], SAFAVID IRAN, DATED TUESDAY 23 SHA'BAN AH 977/31 JANUARY 1570 AD
Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 5ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 3ll. black nasta'liq with two cartouches between each containing 4ll. of smaller nasta'liq, written on the diagonal, further cartouches above and below each with a line of nasta'liq divided into two columns, all within gold rules, some with gold and polychrome illumination in the corners, laid down on marbled paper margins, the opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated floral headpiece above 7ll. of elegant nasta'liq on blue gold speckled paper, colophon signed, in later stamped morocco
Text panel 5½ x 2¾in. (14 x 7cm.); folio 9 1/8 x 5 7/8in. (23 x 14.9cm.)

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Salim al-Katib was the son of a slave of Jamal al-Din al-Astarabadi, and a pupil of Shah Mahmud Nishapuri. He spent most of his life in Mashhad where he died around the year AH 990/1582-83 AD. Another copy of the 'Forty Traditions' was copied by him in Mashhad in AH 964/1557-58 AD. This was in the collection of Mehdi Bayani. Salim's dated works range between AH 961 and 976/1554 and 1569 AD. The author of the Golestan-i Honar states that he was unrivalled in the art of coloured calligraphy. For his biography and other pieces, see Mehdi Bayani, Ahval ve asar-e khosh nevisan, Tehran, 1346sh., no. 394, pp.282-285.

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