COPIED BY 'ABD AL-NABI, ISFAHAN, SAFAVID IRAN, AH 1052/1661 AD

細節

JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (D. AH 613/1217 AD): KHAMSA
COPIED BY 'ABD AL-NABI, ISFAHAN, SAFAVID IRAN, AH 1052/1661 AD
Persian manuscript on cream paper, 330ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 22ll. of flowing black nasta'liq arranged in four columns with double black-ruled silver intercolumnar divisions, margins in gold and green with black rule, headings in red, several panels intended for headings left blank, 46 miniatures in the Isfahan style, opening folio with gold and polychrome illumination, four further pages with similar illumination marking the beginning of the five poems, each colophon mentioning the date of completion, 1058 and three bearing the name of the copier, 'Abd al-Nabi, black morocco binding, with stamped central medallion and scrolling border, slight oxidization and flaking of the miniatures and some holes, misbound
Folio 10 3/8 x 6¼in. (26.3 x 15.9cm.); Text 8 5/16 x 4 5/8in. (21.1 x 11.7cm.)

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With Sam Fogg

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拍品專文

It is rare to find a copy of the khamsa of Nizami with such a large number of miniatures executed in the Isfahan style at this date. A comparable khamsa dated AH 1076/1665-6 AD with 41 miniatures signed by Talib, is in the British Museum (B.W. Robinson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1958, pl. XXVIIb and p.161).

A full list of all forty-six miniatures is available on request.