A COLLECTION OF FOUR POETRY ANTHOLOGIES

ONE SIGNED (SULTAN) MAHMUD AL-KATIB, SAFAVID IRAN AND INDIA, 16TH-19TH CENTURY

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A COLLECTION OF FOUR POETRY ANTHOLOGIES
ONE SIGNED (SULTAN) MAHMUD AL-KATIB, SAFAVID IRAN AND INDIA, 16TH-19TH CENTURY
Comprising a copy of Rumi's Mathnavi signed Mahmud al-Katib and dated AH 954, each folio with 18ll. of black nasta'liq script arranged in four columns within gold and polychrome rules, with late 19th century added miniatures, in brown morocco, an incomplete 16th century Safavid Khamsa with Qajar miniatures, each folio with 17-18ll. of black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns, other text written diagonally around, titles in gold, in stamped brown morocco binding, a 16th century Safavid copy of Husayn al-Kashifi's Anwar-i suhayli signed Muhammad bin 'Abdullah with added Qajar miniatures, in embroidered cover binding and a 19th century Indian copy of Zahir Faryabi's Diwan, each folio with 12ll. of black nasta'liq script on pink paper arranged in two columns, in brown morocco binding signed Baha al-Din Peshawari
Folio 9 5/8 x 7in. (24.5 x 17.7cm.) illustrated; 8 x 4¾in. (20.2 x 11.9cm.); 10¼ x 6½in. (25.9 x 16.7cm.); 10½ x 6¼in. (26.6 x 15.7cm.) (4)

拍品专文

Sultan Mahmud al-Katib is mentioned as being one of the pupils of 'Ali Reza, and was alive in AH 995 (1586-87 AD). His only other recorded work is a copy of selections from the Bustan of Sa'di, dated AH 957 (1550-51 AD), recorded by Bayani who says he must have been a very skilled calligrapher (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, Vol. III, Tehran, 1348 sh, p. 884).

A copy of 'Arifi's Guy o chaugan signed by Sultan Mahmud al-Katib and dated AH 950/1543-4 AD was sold in Christie's, London, 7 October 2008, lot 342.
A large album page signed by Sultan Mahmud as well as other important Safavid scribes was sold at Sotheby's, London, 6 October 2010, lot 56.