COPIED BY FATH 'ALI AL-HIJAB AL-SHIRAZI FOR MIRZA 'ABDULLAH KHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1269/1852-3 AD

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JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (AH 535-598/1140-1202 AD): MAKHZAN AL-ASRAR
COPIED BY FATH 'ALI AL-HIJAB AL-SHIRAZI FOR MIRZA 'ABDULLAH KHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1269/1852-3 AD
A series of poems and versified legends of ethical and mystical significance, Persian manuscript on ivory paper, 94ff. with 12ll. of elegant black nasta'liq divided into two columns with gold floral intercolumnar line between black rules, text blocks with gold and polychrome borders between blue and black rule, red and black outer borders, headings in white nasta'liq in gold cartouches against a blue ground with gold floral illumination, each page with guard sheet, opening bifolio with the text in clouds reserved against gold ground, delicately illuminated gold and polychrome borders with similar headpiece, colophon signed Fath 'Ali al-Hijab al-Shirazi for Mirza 'Abdullah Khan and dated AH 1269, with later frontispiece with a note by Mahdi ibn Mustafa al-Husayni al-Tafrashi, dated AH 1323, excellent condition, black shagreen binding with gold and polychrome floral medallion, spandrels and borders, red morocco doublures
Text panel 6 7/8 x 3½in. (17.5 x 8.9cm.); folio 10¼ x 6½in. (26 x 16.6cm.)

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拍品專文

Fath 'Ali Hijab was a well-known scribe of the first half of the 19th century. Amongst his recorded work is a copy of Tarikh-e Mu'jam commissioned by the Qajar king Muhammad Shah (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. II, Tehran 1346 sh., pp. 565-7). Mirza 'Abdullah Khah, for whom the copy was produced was the Deputy Chamberlain at the court of Nasir al-Din Shah.

The note at the beginning of the manuscript written by Mahdi ibn Mustafa al-Husayni al-Tafrashi (titled Badayi'-Negar) says that these 94 folios are unrivalled in the beauty of the hand. Another note by the same al-Tafrashi is in a copy of the Divan of Hafiz in the Gulistan Library. It is similarly dated AH 1323 and adds his pen-name 'Lahuti' (Mehdi Bayani, op cit., pp. 926-7).