Leaf from the Farhang-i Jahangiri,

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Leaf from the Farhang-i Jahangiri,
Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 35ll. of small elegant nasta'liq, words in red, border of gold meandering vine on coloured ground between green, blue, orange and gold margins and black rules, buff leaf painted with black-outlined gold scrolling flowering and cloudband vine on recto and birds and creatures amoung foliage on verso, Mughal India, 1608 - 34.5 x 22cm.; and a kufic Qur'an folio, manuscript on vellum, 5ll. of brown kufic, diacritics in brown, vowelling in red and green(?), verse divider in gold and marginal medallion in brown and gold, traces of interlinear text in brown, Iran or Iraq, circa 10th century - 16.9 x 12.7cm.
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Provenance

By repute, Georges-Joseph Demotte, Paris 1930.

Lot Essay

Several leaves are known from this 1608 copy of the Persian lexicon, with its distinctive borders. It appears to have been in the possession of the Parisian dealer, Georges-Joseph Demotte, since several miniature paintings mounted on leaves of the manuscript are illustrated in his 1930 catalogue.
For a list of dispersed pages see Beach, M.C.: The Grand Mogul, Imperial Painting in India 1600-1660, Williamstown 1978, p.41. See also Leach, L.Y.: Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland 1986, pp.65-72 and Christie's King Street Rooms, 25 April 1995, lots 8-8A.

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