Lot 84
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'ABDULLAH HATIFI (D. AH 914/1508-09 AD): TIMURNAMA
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'ABDULLAH HATIFI (D. AH 914/1508-09 AD): TIMURNAMA

SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1580-90

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'ABDULLAH HATIFI (D. AH 914/1508-09 AD): TIMURNAMA
SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1580-90
Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled ivory paper, 48ff., each with 12ll. of fine black nasta'liq arranged in two gold-outlined columns, with fine coloured margins embellished with gold arabesques and animals, with one full-page illustration depicting a hunting scene, opening folio with later illuminated headpiece and text within gold clouds, some staining and rubbing, some folios loose, in later Qajar gold-glitter floral lacquer binding
Text panel 5½ x 3¼in. (14 x 7.5cm.); folio 10½ x 6¾in. (26.7 x 17cm.)
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Lot Essay

'Abdullah Hatifi was the nephew of the famous poet Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman Jami'. Hatifi spent his life in the town of Jam located near Herat. He was greatly influenced by the works of Nizami and Amir Khusraw. This historical narrative manuscript is dedicated to Timur but mostly based on Nizami's Iskandarnama. This text appears to be the only work that the author completed. Another copy of the Timurnama copied in Herat and dated AH 977/1569-70 AD was with Sam Fogg, Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Manuscripts, exhibition catalogue, 6-23 October 2009, no. 36.

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