拍品專文
This is a little known work written for a prince. The author, who is also probably the scribe, styles himself a religious scholar and a calligrapher.
QAJAR PERSIA, AH 1230/1814-5 AD
細節
Muhammad 'Ali Shakib al-Musavi al-Isfahani: Gulshan-i-Jamal
Qajar Persia, AH 1230/1814-5 AD
Romantic prose, Persian manuscript on polished cream paper, 47ff. with 12ll. of flowing black nasta'liq, within gold rules, opening bifolio within gold clouds, with gold and polychrome illuminated heading and floral margins, and THREE FULL PAGE MINIATURES, final folio with colophon dated 1230, staining at edges of pages, in original gold glitter lacquer binding with cartouches containing miniatures of the Blessed Virgin and Christ child, red and gold lacquer doublures with perching birds
Folio 11 x 7in. (28 x 18cm.); text 7¾ x 3¼ (19.5 x 8.3cm.)
Qajar Persia, AH 1230/1814-5 AD
Romantic prose, Persian manuscript on polished cream paper, 47ff. with 12ll. of flowing black nasta'liq, within gold rules, opening bifolio within gold clouds, with gold and polychrome illuminated heading and floral margins, and THREE FULL PAGE MINIATURES, final folio with colophon dated 1230, staining at edges of pages, in original gold glitter lacquer binding with cartouches containing miniatures of the Blessed Virgin and Christ child, red and gold lacquer doublures with perching birds
Folio 11 x 7in. (28 x 18cm.); text 7¾ x 3¼ (19.5 x 8.3cm.)