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Lot Essay
This is a commentary on the Persian classical work Gulshan-e-raz by Mahmud ibn 'Abd al-Karim ibn Yahya al-Shabistari (d. AH 720/1320 AD) in which the secrets of Sufism are unfolded and Sufi terminology is explained.
The poems on the cover also give information that it was completed for Nasir al-Mulk and the last verse gives the date in abjad.
Fazlullah al-Sharif was from a family of calligraphers and illuminators, and the son of Mirza Yusuf the mudhahhib-bashi (Chief illuminator). According to Fursat Shirazi, Fazlullah died when young in 1310/1892-3 in Shiraz. The only recorded work by him are a copy of a work by Jami dated 1305/1886-7 and a lithograph copy of Sa'di's Kulliyat. For his father and brothers see Karimzadeh, vol.3, pp. 1429-30.
nasir al-Mulk was Superintendant of the HSrine of Imam Reza at Mashhaed adn eas appiointed steward and deputy to Salar al-Dawla, son of Muzaffar al-Din Shah in 1321/1903-4.
The poems on the cover also give information that it was completed for Nasir al-Mulk and the last verse gives the date in abjad.
Fazlullah al-Sharif was from a family of calligraphers and illuminators, and the son of Mirza Yusuf the mudhahhib-bashi (Chief illuminator). According to Fursat Shirazi, Fazlullah died when young in 1310/1892-3 in Shiraz. The only recorded work by him are a copy of a work by Jami dated 1305/1886-7 and a lithograph copy of Sa'di's Kulliyat. For his father and brothers see Karimzadeh, vol.3, pp. 1429-30.
nasir al-Mulk was Superintendant of the HSrine of Imam Reza at Mashhaed adn eas appiointed steward and deputy to Salar al-Dawla, son of Muzaffar al-Din Shah in 1321/1903-4.