HERAT, 1423 AD

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LEAF FROM HAFIZ-I ABRU'S MAJMA' AL-TAVARIKH
Herat, 1423 AD
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, two figures kneel before a ruler, a warrior with a Mongol style helmet and other figures look on, with lines of black naskh above and below, title in red, laid down on card, slight smudging
Folio 14½ x 10in. (36.6 x 25.5cm.)

Provenance

Hagop Kevorkian Fund
Sold Sothebys London, 2 May 1977, lot 33

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Lot Essay

This page is from the Majma' al-tavarikh, written for Shah Rukh and his son Baysungur at Herat. It was largely copied from Rashid al-Din's famous Jami al-tavarikh. The pictorial style is slightly archaic for the early 15th century and looks back to that employed in the Rashid al-Din manuscripts. This manuscript is now dispersed amongst collections around the world including the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Robinson, B.W.: Persian Miniature Painting, exhibition catalogue, London, 1967, no. 15.

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