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拍品專文
'Abd al-Rahim (active 1590-1625) originally came from Herat, but later joined Jahangir's court as one of his great master calligraphers. Amongst his album pages are fifteen collected for an album made for Shah Jahan (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. II, Tehran 1346 sh., pp.389-91).
It seems he came from a talented family. His grandfather is mentioned in a note by Shah Jahan as the likely calligrapher of a diwan in his royal library. 'Abd al-Rahim was granted the title, Anbarin Qalam (musk pen), by Jahangir who so admired him that he commissioned a portrait of him by the Mughal artist Daulat to be added to a copy of Nizami's Khamsa finished by the calligrapher in 1595 AD (British Library, Or. ms. 12208). Among his album pages are 15 collected for an album made for Shah Jahan, which were signed in the same manner as ours faqir 'abd al-rahim 'anbarin qalam sana 1030 (Bayani, op.cit p.389-391) For further reading on this calligrapher see Toby Falk (ed.), Treasures of Islam, exhibition catalogue, Geneva 1985, p.170, no.150 and Abolala Soudavar, Art of the Persian Courts, New York 1992, pp. 120, 339.
This album page is closely linked to a series of well-known albums of paintings and calligraphy produced for the Mughal Emperors, Jahangir and Shah Jahan with distinctively elaborate decorated borders. The incorporation of a wide variety of blooming plants as a border ornament is a classically Mughal practice and one probably inspired both by European botanical prints that increasingly found their way into the court in the first half of the 17th century.
Another calligraphic folio from the same album also signed by 'Abd al-Rahim 'Anbarin Qalam and also dated AH 1030 / 1620-21, sold in these Rooms, 26 April 1994, lot 14. Two folios from the same album sold at Sotheby's as part of the Berkeley Trust sale, 12 October 2004, lots 4 and 5. More recently a page from the 'Late' Shah Jahan Album with a calligraphy by 'Ali Al-Katib was sold at Sotheby's, London, 27 October 2020, lot 435.
It seems he came from a talented family. His grandfather is mentioned in a note by Shah Jahan as the likely calligrapher of a diwan in his royal library. 'Abd al-Rahim was granted the title, Anbarin Qalam (musk pen), by Jahangir who so admired him that he commissioned a portrait of him by the Mughal artist Daulat to be added to a copy of Nizami's Khamsa finished by the calligrapher in 1595 AD (British Library, Or. ms. 12208). Among his album pages are 15 collected for an album made for Shah Jahan, which were signed in the same manner as ours faqir 'abd al-rahim 'anbarin qalam sana 1030 (Bayani, op.cit p.389-391) For further reading on this calligrapher see Toby Falk (ed.), Treasures of Islam, exhibition catalogue, Geneva 1985, p.170, no.150 and Abolala Soudavar, Art of the Persian Courts, New York 1992, pp. 120, 339.
This album page is closely linked to a series of well-known albums of paintings and calligraphy produced for the Mughal Emperors, Jahangir and Shah Jahan with distinctively elaborate decorated borders. The incorporation of a wide variety of blooming plants as a border ornament is a classically Mughal practice and one probably inspired both by European botanical prints that increasingly found their way into the court in the first half of the 17th century.
Another calligraphic folio from the same album also signed by 'Abd al-Rahim 'Anbarin Qalam and also dated AH 1030 / 1620-21, sold in these Rooms, 26 April 1994, lot 14. Two folios from the same album sold at Sotheby's as part of the Berkeley Trust sale, 12 October 2004, lots 4 and 5. More recently a page from the 'Late' Shah Jahan Album with a calligraphy by 'Ali Al-Katib was sold at Sotheby's, London, 27 October 2020, lot 435.