A SECTION FROM AN ILLUSTRATED SHAHNAMA

Los 62
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Los 62 | A SECTION FROM AN ILLUSTRATED SHAHNAMA
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A SECTION FROM AN ILLUSTRATED SHAHNAMA

ONE ILLUSTRATION SIGNED SALIM AND THE OTHER MUQIM, PROBABLY BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN, CIRCA 1670

From a Shahnama of Firdawsi, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, comprising two quires each of 6ff. and with one illustration in opaque pigments heightened with gold, the first illustration depicting Iskandar slaying the dragon and the second depicting the death of Sohrab, each signed, each folio with 19 to 27ll. black nasta'liq written horizontally and on the diagonal arranged in four columns with gold intercolumnar rules, illustrations within the text panel, set within gold, blue and black rules, headings in red nasta'liq, the plain margins with later pencil pagination and marginal annotations, catchwords

Painting 5 ½ x 3 7⁄8in. (14 x 9.8cm.); text panel 7 1⁄8 x 4 1⁄8in. (18.2 x 10.5cm.); folio 9 7⁄8 x 6 ¼in. (25.2 x 16.3cm.)





Provenance

Octave Homberg, Paris, by 1931



Literature

Collection Octave Homberg, June 1931, no.93, p.49
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