拍品 29
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A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN
A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN

SIGNED MAHMUD BIN ISHAQ AL-SHAHABI, SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY

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A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN
SIGNED MAHMUD BIN ISHAQ AL-SHAHABI, SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on paper, with 4ll. of elegant diagonal black nasta'liq and a further 2ll. written on the horizontal, all in clouds reserved against a ground decorated with small blue cintamani dots and gold leaf-motifs reserved against blue ground roundels, the signature in smaller nasta'liq within a gold and polychrome illuminated traingular panel, further triangle and half medallions of illumination, laid down between bright green rules on gold speckled margins
Calligraphy 7 3/8 x 3 1/8in. (18.6 x 8cm.); folio 12 1/8 x 7¾in. (30.8 x 19.1cm.)

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拍品专文

Mahmud ibn Ishaq al-Shahabi was a much praised pupil of Mir 'Ali and was taken to Bukhara by 'Ubaydallah Khan after the capture of Herat. His recorded works are dated between AH 924/1518-19 AD and AH 993/1585-86 AD (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval-va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol III., Tehran, 1346, pp.876-880). For a full account of his life see V. Minorsky (tr.), Calligraphers and Painters, Washington, 1959, p. 131.

Another manuscript copied by him was sold in these Rooms, 31 March 2009, lot 42.