A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION

SIGNED KHALIL'ULLAH, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY

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A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
SIGNED KHALIL'ULLAH, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on paper, comprising, 7ll. of elegant black diagonal nasta'liq on a ground of gold cusped palmettes and flowering plants inhabited by birds, signed in the middle, slightly cropped, within gold and red rules and borders of scrolling floral vine on blue and turquoise, mounted into a blue card window mount, minor areas of wormholing
Text panel 7¼ x 3½in. (18.5 x 9cm.); folio 13¾ x 9 7/8in. (35 x 25.1cm.)

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The text of this quatrain is a Persian commentary on the Qur'anic phrase 'indeed the believers are brothers' (Qur'an XLIX, sura hujurat, v.10).

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