VAHSHI BAQFI: FARHAD WA SHIRIN

SIGNED HUSAYN AL-TABRIZI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY

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VAHSHI BAQFI: FARHAD WA SHIRIN
SIGNED HUSAYN AL-TABRIZI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 35ff. as numbered plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rules filled with gold and blue flowering vine and small catchwords at the bottom, text panels laid down within gold and polychrome rules on wide coloured margins decorated in gold with fine landscapes filled with foliage and real and fantastic birds and mammals, headings in gold nasta'liq on cartouches filled with and surrounded by floral illumination, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, text on the first and final bifolia in clouds reserved against gold ground, with one contemporaneous miniature in gold and polychrome, colophon signed, folio 1r. with numerous later owner's stamps, some waterstaining mostly affecting margins, in later Indian gold stamped binding, brown morocco doublures
Text panel 6½ x 3in. (16.4 x7.6cm.); folio 11.5 x 6 7/8in. (29.5 x 17.7cm.)

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A note written in a late 19th or early 20th century hand that accompanies this manuscript reads, "These few words are written by the order of "Amar al-S'ar, rafat-saar, Pasmudeda atmar, Suja aldawara, marrafa malaqhal Tahmasle Kuli, by Husain Tubrazi".

This manucript was copied for Tahmasp Quli Beyga. As well as library inspection inscriptions, the manuscript has various Mughal seals, including that of I'timad Khan, an official of Shah Jahan, dated AH 1063/1652-53 AD; Abdullah, born into familial service (khanah-zad) to 'Alamgir (Aurangzeb) and Muhammad Najm al-din Khan, Chief Qadi under Awrangzeb, dated AH 1206/1791-92 AD.

SIGNED HUSAYN AL-TABRIZI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY

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