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THE CALLIGRAPHY SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY; THE ILLUMINATION NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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THE CALLIGRAPHY SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY; THE ILLUMINATION NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 391ff. plus five flyleaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh, gold roundel verse markers, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in gold thuluth, catchwords, ‘ashr, hizb, nisf and juz' marked in red thuluth in the margins, illuminated marginal medallions, opening bifolio with later illuminated flowering plants contained within large cusped medallions, followed by an illuminated double frontispiece framing 7ll. of naskh, colophon with attribution to 'Abd al-Baqi Tabrizi, seal impressions and later owners' notes on flyleaves, re-margined, repairs throughout, in Ottoman brown morocco with flap decorated in gilt stamped central medallion and spandrels, marbled paper doublures
Text panel 5 1/8 x 3in. (13 x 7.8cm.); folio 7 ¾ x 4 ¾in. (19.6 x 12.1cm.)
THE CALLIGRAPHY SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY; THE ILLUMINATION NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 391ff. plus five flyleaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh, gold roundel verse markers, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in gold thuluth, catchwords, ‘ashr, hizb, nisf and juz' marked in red thuluth in the margins, illuminated marginal medallions, opening bifolio with later illuminated flowering plants contained within large cusped medallions, followed by an illuminated double frontispiece framing 7ll. of naskh, colophon with attribution to 'Abd al-Baqi Tabrizi, seal impressions and later owners' notes on flyleaves, re-margined, repairs throughout, in Ottoman brown morocco with flap decorated in gilt stamped central medallion and spandrels, marbled paper doublures
Text panel 5 1/8 x 3in. (13 x 7.8cm.); folio 7 ¾ x 4 ¾in. (19.6 x 12.1cm.)
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