'Ali Shir Nawa'i (d. AH 906/1500-01 AD): Diwan

細節

'Ali Shir Nawa'i (d. AH 906/1500-01 AD): Diwan
Herat, mid-sixteenth century

the famous love lyrics of 'Ali shir Nawa'i, Turki manuscript on cream paper, 186ff., each with 14 or 15ll. of fine black nasta'liq, the text divided by thin gold lines between black rules, green and gold margins within black rules, red and blue outer rules, (some staining smudging, and tears, probably incomplete at end), heading illuminated predominantly in blue and gold, headings within the text in blue or gold, CONTEMPORARY SUPERB LACQUER BINDING WITH FLAP, the brown ground painted with a forest scene in polychrome outlined in gold, showing a tiger, deer, fish and a simurgh, with ducks flying above in a cloudy sky, within a double gold interlace and floral border, (re-lacquered), maroon morocco doublures with gold and blue decoupé decoration (worn)
folio 9¼ x 6in. (23.5 x 14.9cm.)
text 6 x 3½in. (15.7 x 9.4cm.)

出版

Arberry, A. J. (ed): The Chester Beatty Library, A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, Dublin 1962
Rogers, M. (ed): Islamic Art and Design, 1500-1700, London 1983
Titley, N. M.: Persian Miniature Painting and its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India, London 1983

拍品專文

The opening folio has impressions of a few ownership seals together with official endorsements dating from AH 1048/1638-9 AD indicating that the book had formed part of a royal library and been seen by the king. Two are the seals of Sayyid Niyaz Akhund son of Pir Muhammad. Other impressions are those of Ibrahim b. Khalil b. Muhammad, Muhammad Malik, and Muhammad 'Abdullah.

Two very similar bindings were sold in these rooms on 8th October 1991 as lot 168, and on 28th April 1992 as lot 105. There is another similar in the British Museum exhibited in 1983 as cat. no. 4, and a another on a volume of Yusuf and Zulaika dated 1569, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Greaves I).