FIVE ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS AND AN ILLUMINATED TITLE PAGE FROM THE KHAMSA OF NIZAMI GANJAVI

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FIVE ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS AND AN ILLUMINATED TITLE PAGE FROM THE KHAMSA OF NIZAMI GANJAVI

PROBABLY SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1520

Four folios from the Haft Paykar and one from Khusraw wa Shirin, together with an illuminated opening folio from Khusraw wa Shirin, the illustrated folios with opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, four columns of black nasta'liq above and below, some with a chapter heading in blue nasta'liq against a floral ground above, the reverse with 14-18ll. black nasta'liq arranged in four columns and occasional chapter headings, set within gold and polychrome rules, three folios with margins cropped; the opening folio a Persian manuscript on paper, gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece surmounting 12ll. black nasta'liq arranged in four columns in clouds reserved against a gold ground, within gold and polychrome rules

Painting 7 1⁄8 x 3 7⁄8in. (18.3 x 9.8cm.); text panel 7 1⁄4 x 4 3⁄8in. (18.4 x 10.9cm.); folio 12 x 7 3⁄4in. (30.5 x 19.7cm.)







Provenance

Folio 1, Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1970, lot 242

Folio 5, Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1970, lot 241

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