AN ILLUMINATED BORDER

SIGNED MUHAMMAD AMIN, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 929/1522-23 AD

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AN ILLUMINATED BORDER
SIGNED MUHAMMAD AMIN, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 929/1522-23 AD
On black card, the borders with cusped medallions, two containing finely painted figures seated with their legs crossed before them, a third with a winged figure holding a wine glass and cup, calligraphic cartouches with yellow nasta'liq between them, the inner edge with two half medallions and a small cartouche containing the signature kamtarin Muhammad Amin and the date 929, the cartouches and medallions on a ground of elegant silhouette floral scrolls on a dense speckled ground, some scrolls terminating in animals' heads, the border framing a folio from a fine 16th century manuscript with 11ll. of neat nasta'liq in two columns, space left for heading, the text panel pasted over a miniature, laid down on card, minor flaking and losses to the edges
Folio 10 3/8 x 6¾in. (26.4 x 17.3cm.)

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Lot Essay

This illuminated folio is from the same series as a pair of illuminated folios which sold in these Rooms, 5 October 2010, lot 227. This group are part of is termed the metropolitan Qazvin style which according to B.W. Robinson was practiced in Tabriz from circa 1565-85. Further examples from this same series are in the Chester Beatty Library, which also have similar waq-waq motifs, and frame folios from Jami's subhat al-abrar, (illustrated in M. Minovi, B.W. Robinson et.al, The Chester Beatty Library, A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, Dublin, 1960, cat.210). Significantly, our folio appears to be the only example from this group which is signed.

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