THE KHAMSAS OF NIZAMI (D.1209) AND AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAVI (D.1325)
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Verkauft
2944000GBP £ 2 944 000 
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ID 1178403 
Los 54  | THE KHAMSAS OF NIZAMI (D.1209) AND AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAVI (D.1325)
Schätzwert
£ 500 000 – 700 000 
COLOPHON SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN DAR AL-MARZI ON THE ORDER OF LUTFALLAH MUZAHHIB (THE ILLUMINATOR) SHIRAZI, SHIRAZ, IRAN, DATED BETWEEN THE LAST DAY DHU’L QA’DA AH 1033 / 14 SEPTEMBER 1624 AD AND 1 DHU’L QA’DA AH 1035 / 15 JULY 1626 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold speckled paper, 392ff. plus eleven flyleaves, each folio with 20ll. of fine black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, section headings in white thuluth reserved against gold illuminated cartouches set within illuminated panels across the central two columns, set within gold rules, with 44ll. additional set diagonally within the margins, within gold outer rules, catchwords, the opening bifolio with two full-page illustrations depicting a bucolic scene within gold and polychrome illuminated margins, the following page with elaborate illuminated headpiece and illuminated margins, similar illumination for each new section within the khamsa, with 23 full page illustrations often extended into the margins and the text on the opposite folio reserved against gold illumination, each section with a dated colophon, the final bifolio with two full page illustrations of hunting party within gold and polychrome illuminated margins, remargined, in lacquer binding,
Text panel 6 3⁄8 x 3 7⁄8in. (16.3 x 9.8cm.) incl. marginal text; folio 11 ½ x 7 ¼in. (29.3 x 18.3cm.)
Provenance
Eduard Credé, Berlin (1899 -1977)
Thence by descent to his son Herbert Credé, Salem (1930-2022)
| Kunst Stil: | Safawiden (1506-1722) | 
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| Herkunftsort: | Asien, Persien | 
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Briefe, Dokumente und Manuskripte, Bücher und Handschriften | 
| Kunst Stil: | Safawiden (1506-1722) | 
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| Herkunftsort: | Asien, Persien | 
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Briefe, Dokumente und Manuskripte, Bücher und Handschriften | 
| Adresse der Versteigerung | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Vereinigtes Königreich | |
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