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IRAN, 17TH-19TH CENTURY
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AN ALBUM OF CALLIGRAPHY
IRAN, 17TH-19TH CENTURY
Various, Persian manuscript on cream paper and yellow card, 12ff., most with 7ll. of black nasta'liq on buff paper with blue, red and gold margins with black rule, one folio with elegant gold and polychrome illumination, several stamps throughout, verso of the final folio with 8ll. of blue and black naskh, signed Muhammad Sadiq al-Shirazi and dated 1293, leather binding with central red and gold tooled medallion
Folio 10½ x 6¾in. (26.6 x 17.2cm.); most text 6 7/8 x 3¾in. (17.5 x 9.5cm.)
IRAN, 17TH-19TH CENTURY
Various, Persian manuscript on cream paper and yellow card, 12ff., most with 7ll. of black nasta'liq on buff paper with blue, red and gold margins with black rule, one folio with elegant gold and polychrome illumination, several stamps throughout, verso of the final folio with 8ll. of blue and black naskh, signed Muhammad Sadiq al-Shirazi and dated 1293, leather binding with central red and gold tooled medallion
Folio 10½ x 6¾in. (26.6 x 17.2cm.); most text 6 7/8 x 3¾in. (17.5 x 9.5cm.)
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