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Twenty-four Illustrated folios from a ?Shahnameh
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Twenty-four Illustrated folios from a ?Shahnameh
Mughal, seventeenth century
Persian manuscript on buff paper, 24ff., each with 29ll. of black nasta'liq, intercolumnar and interlinear lines in gold between black rules, gold, red and blue margins between black rules, each folio with an illustration occupying two columns in gouache heightened with gold depicting various scenes of an historical epic, (some flaking and worming), mounted, framed and glazed in four groups of six
each folio 9½ x 6in. (24.4 x 15cm.) (4)
Mughal, seventeenth century
Persian manuscript on buff paper, 24ff., each with 29ll. of black nasta'liq, intercolumnar and interlinear lines in gold between black rules, gold, red and blue margins between black rules, each folio with an illustration occupying two columns in gouache heightened with gold depicting various scenes of an historical epic, (some flaking and worming), mounted, framed and glazed in four groups of six
each folio 9½ x 6in. (24.4 x 15cm.) (4)