COPIED BY MAHMUD IBN ISHAQ AL-SHAHABI, BALKH, AFGHANISTAN, DATED RAMADAN AH 971/APRIL-MAY 1564 AD

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COPIED BY MAHMUD IBN ISHAQ AL-SHAHABI, BALKH, AFGHANISTAN, DATED RAMADAN AH 971/APRIL-MAY 1564 AD
Persian manuscript on gold-speckled paper, 8ff., each with 8ll. of fine black nasta'liq, numerous polychrome illustrations of birds often in pairs, the text panels in gold and polychrome rules on wide polychrome gold-speckled margins, opening folio with illuminated gold and polychrome floral headpiece, colophon signed, with some later added owner's seals, in later gold and red lacquer binding
Text panel 5¼ x 2¾in. (13.3 x 7.2cm.); folio 8¼ x 5 7/8in. (22.1 x 14.8cm.)

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Lot Essay

Mahmud ibn Ishaq al-Shahabi was a much praised pupil of Mir 'Ali and was taken to Bukhara by the Shaybanid ruler '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.

For a further work copied by the same scribe see lot 11.

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