A DIWAN
A DIWAN

COPIED BY 'ALI MUHAMMAD SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED 25 RAJAB AH 1237/17 APRIL 1822 AD

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A DIWAN
COPIED BY 'ALI MUHAMMAD SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED 25 RAJAB AH 1237/17 APRIL 1822 AD
Poetry, including the story of Hir and Ranjah of 'Azim al-Din, Persian manuscript on paper, 295ff. plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of elegant black nasta'liq in two columns within gold and red rules, headings in red nasta'liq on gold ground with polychrome floral illumination, five fully illuminated bifolium within the text within the elegant nast'aliq within white cloud reserved against gold ground, colophon signed and giving the name of the patron, in later European stamped and gilded binding with red velvet central panels
Text panel 6¼ x 3in. (15.8 x 7.5cm.); folio 8 7/8 x 5 5/8in. (22.5 x 14.1cm.)

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A colophon at the end of this manuscript records that it was copied by 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi for Mir Karam 'Ali Khan on 25th Rajab AH 1237/17th April 1822 AD. One of the illuminated sarlawhs also has the name al-Sultan Mir Karam 'Ali Khan in gold thuluth letters.
This manuscript was probably made for the Talpurs by a Persian artist. A possible identification for our scribe is the 'Ali Muhammad al-Shirazi mentioned in Bayani (ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. II, no. 686, pp. 478-480). Among his other works in shikasteh ta'liq are an anthology of poetry and a copy of the Pir o Javan of Nasir Isfahani, both made for Husayn 'Ali Mirza in 1226 and in the Imperial Library, Tehran. Other surviving works by him include a Qur'an in nasta'liq in the Istanbul University Library, which is dated 1 Dhu'l-Hijja AH 1248 (21 April 1833 AD), as well as a muraqqa' containing pieces dated between 1255 and 1260 (1839-40 and 1844-45).