HAYDAR SHIRAZI: DIWAN

BUKHARA, DATED AH 982/1574-75 AD

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HAYDAR SHIRAZI: DIWAN
BUKHARA, DATED AH 982/1574-75 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 64ff., each with 12ll. of elegant black nasta'liq divided into two columns with double gold intercolumnar rules, text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, laid down on borders decorated with gold cusped cartouches filled with floral scrolls, spaces for headings filled with similar cartouches, first folio with elegantly illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece, final folio with probably added colophon giving the calligrapher's name as 'Ali Reza al-Katib and the date as AH 982, with ten later gouache miniatures painted over text, first and final folio with later owner's notes, minor staining and scuffing, loose in brown morocco with gold stamped medallion, spandrels and borders, the doublures of red morocco with similarly stamped panels
Text panel 5 7/8 x 3 1/8in. (15 x 8cm.); folio 9¼ x 6 3/8in. (23.6 x 16cm.)

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Lot Essay

There are a great number of manuscripts signed with the name 'Ali Riza al-Katib over a wide period, which has lead to the conclusion that they cannot all belong to the same scribe. Manuscripts roughly contemporary with this one include a Diwan of Amir Shahi, dated end of sha'ban AH 970 and a copy of the Baharistan of Jami' dated AH 983, a manuscript of the Bustan of Sa'di dated AH 997 in the Türk ve Islam Eserleri Müzesi (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh nevisan, Tehran, no. 659, pp.464-466).

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