A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM

QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1314/1896-97 AD

细节

A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM
QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1314/1896-97 AD
Containing works of poetry and prose, Persian manuscript on paper, consisting of twenty numbered single-sided folios, the opening 10ff. each with 6ll. of horizontal nasta'liq surrounded by gold and polychrome rules and on wide gold-speckled salmon-coloured margins, followed by 2ff. with 4ll. of diagonal nasta'liq surrounded by four minor lines of nasta'liq, set in polychrome and gold borders inside wide green margins, followed by 2ff. with 12ll. of small nasta'liq on gold-speckled ground with polychrome and gold rules inside orange margins, followed by 2ff. with large nasta'liq couplets inside polychrome and gold rules on wide blue margins, followed by 2ff. of six couplets in small nasta'liq with signature and date, on gold-speckled panels inside gold and polychrome borders in wide green margins, the final 2ff. each with 5ll. of nasta'liq on marbled paper inside gold and polychrome borders inside dark blue margins, dated, concertina bound with gold and polychrome illuminated floral binding plates
Folio 10 5/8 x 7 7/8in. (29.3 x 19.9cm.)

来源

Anon sale, Sotheby's, 12th October 2004, lot 102

荣誉呈献

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拍品专文

Four of the poetic compositions in this album are signed by Fath'ullah and dated AH 1314/1896-87 AD. They were written for Aqa Mirza Husayn Khan Doktor-e Hakimbashi (court physician). A further page of couplets on marbled paper is signed by Fath'ullah and dated AH 1314 1896-97 AD and another page with a single couplet bears his signature. Fath'ullah Jalali (d. AH 1336/1917-18 AD) was a student of Jalal al-Din Huma'i. Amongst his surviving works are the first part of the newspaper Farhang that was published in Isfahan as well as the Diwan of Zahir al-Din Faryabi that is credited with being the first stone lithograph in Iran. He was also responsible for architectural inscriptions including those on the Sufi lodge of Hajj Muhammad Ja'dar Abadei in Isfahan and an inscription on the mihrab of the Mosque of Haji Sayyid Javad in Isfahan, dated AH 1316/1898-99 AD (Mehdi Bayani, ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol.II. no.751, pp.563-564).

A further page of couplets in the album is signed by 'Abd al-Rahim and dated AH 1310/1892-93 AD. 'Abd al-Rahim is possibly 'Abd al-Rahim Afsar (d. ca. AH 1315/1897-98 AD), who was son of Mirza Miskin Sha'ir Isfahani and the father of Fath'ullah Jalali. He also contributed to the first part of the newspaper Farhang. For his various works, including manuscripts, architectural inscriptions and album pages dated between AH 1279 and 1300/1862 and 1882 AD see Bayani, op.cit., vol.II., no.532, pp.381-384.