SAFAVID SHIRAZ, SOUTH IRAN, CIRCA 1550

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MAJNUN CARESSES A DEER IN THE DESERT
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, SOUTH IRAN, CIRCA 1550
An illustration from the Khamsa of Nizami Ganjavi, opaque pigments heightened in gold on paper, 5ll. of black nasta'liq above and 2ll. below arranged in four columns, within gold and polychrome rules, reverse with 19ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in four columns on a gold-sprinkled ground, a heading in white on a gold and polychrome illuminated panel, slight restoration and remargined
Painting 8 x 7in. (20.3 x 17.7cm.); text panel 8 x 4 ½in. (20.3 x 11.5cm.); folio 10 ¾ x 8 ¾in. (27.4 x 22.2cm.)

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Lot Essay

This folio comes from the same album as the preceding lot. After being banned from seeing his childhood love Layla, Qays ibn al-Mulawwah’s obsessiveness drives him mad and makes him run away into the wilderness. His tribe gives him the epithet of Majnun (crazy).

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