SIGNED SALIM, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 967/1559-60 AD

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SHAYKH MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D.1292 AD): GULISTAN AND BUSTAN
SIGNED SALIM, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 967/1559-60 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-speckled paper, 96ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of elegant black nasta'liq script, sometimes arranged in two columns within black-ruled gold cartouches, the central text panel with Sa'di's Gulistan, bordered with text of Sa'di's Bustan in similarly elegant black nasta'liq written diagonally, some words picked out in gold and blue, text within gold and polychrome rules, opening bifolio with finely illuminated margins in gold and polychrome, Gulistan's colophon signed, Bustan's colophon dated, with catchwords, reverse of f.1 with various later owner notes, old repairs, various marginal comments, in fine Qajar lacquered binding with floral decoration
Text panel 10.1/4 x 5in. (25.8 x 12.8cm.); folio 12.5/8 x 7.3/8in. (32 x 19cm.)

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Salim of Nishapur is recorded as being a pupil of Shah Mahmud and a master in nasta'liq script, particularly when writing in colours. He lived in Mashhad and died circa AH 990 (1582-83 AD). His recorded works are dated between AH 961 (1554-55 AD) and AH 976 (1568-69 AD) (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. I, Tehran, 1345 sh, pp. 282-4). A copy of the Forty Traditions of the Prophet and their Persian translation by Salim, dated AH 986 sold at Christie's, 7 October 2008, lot 313.

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