Lot 128
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LEAF FROM A MANUSCRIPT OF JAMI'S YUSUF WA ZULAYKHA
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LEAF FROM A MANUSCRIPT OF JAMI'S YUSUF WA ZULAYKHA

SAFAVID IRAN, AH 964/1557-8 AD

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LEAF FROM A MANUSCRIPT OF JAMI'S YUSUF WA ZULAYKHA
Safavid Iran, AH 964/1557-8 AD
Persian manuscript on paper, 14ll. of flowing black nasta'liq within two gold-outlined columns, bordered with superb gold illumination of flowers and saz leaves, verso with animals and birds in a landscape, card mount, small tear
Folio 10 x 5 7/8in. (25.4 x 15cm.)
Provenance
Friedrich Sarre
Jacob Hirsch, sold in these rooms, 14 April 1976, lot 35
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Lot Essay

This exquisite manuscript page is from an important copy of Jami's Yusuf wa Zulaykha copied by Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Shihabi and dated 964. The text is written in a very fine nasta'liq on burnished gold-sprinkled buff paper. The margins are decorated with arabesques and with forest scenes depicting a variety of animals. Here the animals shown are deer, parrots, a hare, storks and songbirds. In the corner a lion is killing one of the deer. The drawing is of the highest quality. Another leaf from this manuscript is in the C.L.David Collection, Copenhagen (Folsach, K.: Sultan, Shah and Great Mughal, Copenhagen, 1996, no.105, pp. 139, 147-8).

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