Lot Essay
This album opens with two identical pages containing sura al-fatiha. The rest of the album are ghazals and a mukhammas (pentastich) of Hafiz.
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WITH NAME OF MIR 'ALI, SAFAVID IRAN, MID-16TH CENTURY
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A CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT
WITH NAME OF MIR 'ALI, SAFAVID IRAN, MID-16TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 8ff. plus one fly-leaf concertina bound, each folio with 5ll. of nasta'liq in clouds reserved against gold ground decorated with polychrome flowers, between polychrome rules and minor floral borders on wide pink card decorated with gold landscapes, the first bifolio with margins decorated with polychrome landscape on gold ground, colophon with added signature of Mir 'Ali, in repaired floral lacquer binding, boards loose
Text panel 3¾ x 1¾in. (9.4 x 4.2cm.); folio 6¾ x 4in. (17.1 x 10.1cm.)
WITH NAME OF MIR 'ALI, SAFAVID IRAN, MID-16TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 8ff. plus one fly-leaf concertina bound, each folio with 5ll. of nasta'liq in clouds reserved against gold ground decorated with polychrome flowers, between polychrome rules and minor floral borders on wide pink card decorated with gold landscapes, the first bifolio with margins decorated with polychrome landscape on gold ground, colophon with added signature of Mir 'Ali, in repaired floral lacquer binding, boards loose
Text panel 3¾ x 1¾in. (9.4 x 4.2cm.); folio 6¾ x 4in. (17.1 x 10.1cm.)
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