MOSTLY IRAN, 14TH TO 19TH CENTURY

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A COLLECTION OF CALLIGRAPHIC PANELS
MOSTLY IRAN, 14TH TO 19TH CENTURY
Mostly in nasta’liq, naskh and shikasteh scripts and fine examples of calligraphy, comprising numerous folios from manuscripts and calligraphic exercises, nasta’liq quatrains, including a large panel in gold thuluth script outlined in black, a large folio from a 13th century manuscript of Al-Tabari, a panel on blue paper finely illuminated with a combat of qilins, in a modern folder

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Lot Essay

The following signatures can be found in this collection
Shaykh Muhammad Musawwir with date of AH 97[..]
Ahmad al-Husayni
Shaykh Yusuf bin Shaykh Mahmud dated 10 Safar AH 895
Sadiq ‘Ali
Majnun
‘[..] al-Husayni
Mustafa al-Qadi, dated AH 1001 in Constantinople

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