拍品 37
37
A SELECTION FROM NIZAMI'S (D. 1217 AD) KHAMSA
A SELECTION FROM NIZAMI'S (D. 1217 AD) KHAMSA

SIGNED [SHAH] MAHMUD AL-KATIB, SAFAVID HERAT, 16TH CENTURY

细节
A SELECTION FROM NIZAMI'S (D. 1217 AD) KHAMSA
SIGNED [SHAH] MAHMUD AL-KATIB, SAFAVID HERAT, 16TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on buff paper, 38ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of elegant black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns with gold double intercolumnar rules, catchwords, margins ruled in gold and polychrome, headings in blue and gold, opening folio with gold and polychrome illumination, colophon signed al-faqir Shah Mahmud al-Katib, waterstaining mainly affecting margins, in later brown morocco binding with flap decorated with central stamped medallion and borders
Folio 9½ x 6in. (24.3 x 15.3cm.); text panel 5½ x 3 1/8in. (14 x 8cm.)

拍品专文

The colophon on this manuscript has been slightly tampered with in that the words al-faqir (the needy) and Shah have been rewritten. If the signature did originally read Shah Mahmud, then this is the work of Shah Mahmud Nishapuri. The illumination points to Herat as the place of origin which would thus indicate that it is the work of a different, albeit very accomplished, calligrapher.