SIGNED MUHAMMAD QAWWAM, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 996/1587-88 AD

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SIGNED MUHAMMAD QAWWAM, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 996/1587-88 AD
Including Sad Pand of Luqman and Saqinama of Partavi Shirazi, poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled pink paper, 36ff. plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 10ll. of neat black nasta'liq within gold and polychrome rules, the text panels laid down on wide margins with stencilled decoration on green ground, catchwords, first folio with a miniature in gouache heightened with gold and surrounded on three sides by gold and polychrome illumination, the following page with similarly illuminated headpiece surmounting 6ll. of text, the first bifolium with the text in clouds reserved against gold ground, colophon signed and dated, some scuffing, in contemporaneous brown morocco with flap decorated with gold stamped panels with central medallions filled with arabesques, doublures of red morocco with central découpé medallion and spandrels on blue ground
Text panel 4 x 1 5/8in. (10 x 4cm.); folio 6½ x 4in. (16.5 x 10.1cm.)

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This manuscript originally contained five works. There are two complete works now remaining. The details of the life of the scribe Muhammad Qawwam Shirazi are not known. His recorded works range in date between AH 943-960/1535-1553 AD, (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval-va asar-e khosh-nevisan, Tehran, 1346 sh., no. 1207, pp.814-816).

SIGNED MUHAMMAD QAWWAM, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 996/1587-88 AD

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