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SHIRAZ, IRAN, SECOND QUARTER 15TH CENTURY
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TWO ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS FROM A TIMURID MANUSCRIPT
SHIRAZ, IRAN, SECOND QUARTER 15TH CENTURY
A bifolio and a folio, each folio with 19ll. of elegant black naskh script arranged in two columns between black-ruled gold divisions, titles in gold thuluth script, text within blue, black and gold rules, the large illustrations depicting a prisonner bastinadoed before an amazed crowd, and a lover lying on the ground before a princess watching him from a balcony, the scene set in a garden with trees and birds
Illustration 5½ x 5½in. (14 x 14cm.) approx.; folio 11 1/8 x 7in. (28.2 x 17.8cm.) (2)
SHIRAZ, IRAN, SECOND QUARTER 15TH CENTURY
A bifolio and a folio, each folio with 19ll. of elegant black naskh script arranged in two columns between black-ruled gold divisions, titles in gold thuluth script, text within blue, black and gold rules, the large illustrations depicting a prisonner bastinadoed before an amazed crowd, and a lover lying on the ground before a princess watching him from a balcony, the scene set in a garden with trees and birds
Illustration 5½ x 5½in. (14 x 14cm.) approx.; folio 11 1/8 x 7in. (28.2 x 17.8cm.) (2)
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