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KAMAL AL-DIN KNOWN AS VAHSHI BAQFI (D. 1583): FARHAD VA SHIRIN
KAMAL AL-DIN KNOWN AS VAHSHI BAQFI (D. 1583): FARHAD VA SHIRIN
KAMAL AL-DIN KNOWN AS VAHSHI BAQFI (D. 1583): FARHAD VA SHIRIN
KAMAL AL-DIN KNOWN AS VAHSHI BAQFI (D. 1583): FARHAD VA SHIRIN
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KAMAL AL-DIN KNOWN AS VAHSHI BAQFI (D. 1583): FARHAD VA SHIRIN

SIGNED HUSAYN AL-TABRIZI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY

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KAMAL AL-DIN KNOWN AS VAHSHI BAQFI (D. 1583): FARHAD VA SHIRIN
SIGNED HUSAYN AL-TABRIZI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 35ff. as numbered plus four fly leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rules filled with gold and blue flowering vine and small catchwords at the bottom, text panels laid down within gold and polychrome rules on wide coloured margins decorated in gold with fine landscapes filled with foliage and real and fantastic birds and mammals, headings in gold nasta'liq on cartouches filled with and surrounded by floral illumination, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, text on the first and final bifolia in clouds reserved against gold ground, with one contemporaneous miniature in gold and polychrome, colophon signed, folio 1r. with numerous later owner's stamps, some water staining mostly affecting margins, in later Indian gold stamped binding, brown morocco doublures
Text panel 61/2 x 3in. (16.4 x 7.6cm.); folio 11.5 x 6 7/8in. (29.5 x 17.7cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Christie's, London, 25th April 2013, lot 8
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Lot Essay

Muhammad Husayn al-Tabrizi (d. 17 Rajab AH 985/30 September 1577 AD) was a known Safavid calligrapher of nasta'liq. He was in charge of the inscriptions on monuments and government buildings during the reign of Shah Isma'il II (AH 984-85/1576-78 AD). None of his recorded works are dated (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. III, Tehran, 1348 sh, pp. 680-83). The colophon of our manuscript mentions the patron as Tahmasp Quli Beyga. As well as library inspection inscriptions, the manuscript has various Mughal seals, including that of I'timad Khan, an official of Shah Jahan, dated AH 1063/1652-53 AD; 'Abdullah, born into familial service (khanah-zad) to 'Alamgir (Aurangzeb) and Muhammad Najm al-din Khan, Chief Qadi under Aurangzeb, dated AH 1206/1791-92 AD.

For a note on illuminated marginal borders in the Safavid period please see lot 59 in this sale.

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