A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
PRIVATE COLLECTION OF PERSIAN AND INDIAN ALBUM PAGES
A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL

PROBABLY BAGHDAD, 14TH CENTURY OR LATER

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A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
PROBABLY BAGHDAD, 14TH CENTURY OR LATER
Arabic manuscript on paper buff paper, with 5ll. of bold black naskh in clouds reserved against a red-hatched ground decorated with floral scrolls, the name of Argun Kamili in smaller naskh in similar cloud in the left hand corner, laid down between minor gold-illuminated white and gold-speckled blue borders with polychrome rules on wider pink card margin with gold arabesque, polychrome outer rules, some worm holing
Text panel 6½ x 10in. (16.3 x 25.4cm.); folio 12¼ x 17in. (30.9 x 43.3cm.)

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Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse
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Although the style of the script is not dissimilar to that associated with the famous Arghun al-Kamili, the signature here is probably added.
Argun al-Kamili is described as being one of the sittah, the six principle disciples of Yaqut al- Musta'simi. Described by some scholars as being Turkish and by others as Persian, he is most famous for mastering the rayhan and muhaqqaq script. In around 1300 he was taken or went to Baghdad where he is said to have died around 1352. His association with Baghdad is confirmed by an album page in the Topkapi Palace Library, Istanbul signed Arghun al-Baghdadi (MS.H.2130) (V. Minorsky, Calligraphers and Painters, A Treatise by Qadi Ahmad, son of Mir Munshi, Washington, 1959, pp.60-61). He is best known for copying Qur'ans, a bifolio of which was sold in these Rooms, 5 October 2010, lot 126.