WRITTEN BY DARVISH 'ABD AL-MAJID TALIQANI, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1180/1766-7 AD AND RABI' I AH 1081/AUGUST 1670 AD

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WRITTEN BY DARVISH 'ABD AL-MAJID TALIQANI, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1180/1766-7 AD AND RABI' I AH 1081/AUGUST 1670 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on ivory paper, 230ff. plus 2 flyleaves, with 17ll. of elegant black shikasteh arranged in two columns with gold and black ruled intercolumnar divisions, the names of authors in red and pale-blue marginal panels around the text, text boxes with gold margins with black and blue rule, each page with gold and black ruled outer border, 4 gold and polychrome finely illuminated bifoliom, two colophons, one at the end of the qasa'id wa muqatta'at dated 1180, the other at the end saying that it was commissioned by Mirza 'Abd al-Wahhab, and was copied in Isfahan in Rabi' I 1081, Qajar gold and polychrome lacquer binding, with central medallion and cornerpieces decorated with fine golf floral motifs on black ground, in fitted box, excellent condition
Folio 8¾ x 5 3/8in. (22.2 x 13.6cm.); Text 6¼ x 3½in. (15.9 x 8.9cm.)

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The scribe known as Darvish, 'Abd al-Majid Taliqani, is the most accomplished scribe of shikasteh who moved to Isfahan. He was a poet with the pen-names Khamush and Darvish. His recorded works are dated between 1170 (1756-6 AD) and 1185 (1771-2 AD) the year he died. His only other recorded manuscript is a copy of the Kulliyyat of Sa'di in the Gulistan Palace Library in Tehran (see Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. IV, Tehran, 1348 sh., pp. 252-4).

The fuller colophon names the patron of this manuscript as Mirza 'Abd al-Wahhab. A later note in the manuscript itself identifies him as 'the Mayor of Isfahan appointed by Karim Khan Zand'.

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