SIGNED PIR HUSAYN AL-KHATIB, TIMURID SHIRAZ, IRAN, DATED THE LAST DAYS OF JUMADA II AH 897/APRIL 1492 AD

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KHWAJA SHAMS AL-DIN HAFIZ SHIRAZI (D.1390 AD): DIWAN
SIGNED PIR HUSAYN AL-KHATIB, TIMURID SHIRAZ, IRAN, DATED THE LAST DAYS OF JUMADA II AH 897/APRIL 1492 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 163ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of fine black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rules, text panels with similar rules, text with seven contemporaneous paintings in opaque pigments heightened with gold, opening bifolio with an additional double page painting within gold and polychrome illuminated borders, following bifolio with similar illumination surrounding 5ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against lightly hatched ground, colophon signed and dated, later owner's notes, stamps and stickers on first and final folios, in later brown morocco with flap decorated with gilt borders, marbled paper doublures
Text panel 5 1/8 x 2 5/8in. (12.8 x 6.6cm.); folio 7¼ x 4¼in. (18.6 x 10.6cm.)

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Lot Essay

Several manuscripts by the scribe Pir Husayni are recorded in Bayani, including another Divan of Hafiz, dated AH 874/1470-71 AD (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khush-nevisan, Tehran, 1352, p.105-06). A Turkoman manuscript, more heavily illustrated than ours, but similar in style was recently sold at Sotheby's, 3 October 2012, lot 65

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