A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM PAGE

SIGNED MU'IZZ AL-DIN MUHAMMAD AL-HUSAYNI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 989/1581-82 AD

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A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM PAGE
SIGNED MU'IZZ AL-DIN MUHAMMAD AL-HUSAYNI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 989/1581-82 AD
Persian manuscript on paper, comprising 6 ll. of large diagonal nasta'liq surrounded by 4ll. of smaller nasta'liq written along the left and right hand margins, signed katabahu Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad al-Husayni and dated in Arabic numerals in the lower left hand corner, on blue ground decorated in gold with vines issuing cusped palmettes, laid down between gold and marble paper borders on wide margins with similar gold decoration, mounted on card
Text panel 7 x 3 1/8in. (17.6 x 7.8cm.); folio 12½ x 9in. (31.6 x 22.5cm.)

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A copy of a Masnavi of Nur al-Din Jilali Jaghata'i (d.1530 AD) in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is signed by Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad al-Husayni and dated 1570-71 AD (https://art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=37779).

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