AMIR SHAHI SABZAVARI (D.1453): DIWAN

Lot 64
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 64 | AMIR SHAHI SABZAVARI (D.1453): DIWAN
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£ 15 000 – 20 000
AMIR SHAHI SABZAVARI (D.1453): DIWAN
SIGNED 'ABDULLAH BIN SHAYKH MURSHID AL-KATIB, SAFAVID HERAT OR TABRIZ, FIRST QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on gold-speckled and intermittently dyed paper, 45ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 11ll. black nasta'liq arranged in two columns, poem headings in red and gold nasta'liq, set within gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain and highly burnished with black and gold outer rule, occasional catchwords in red, f.1b with a gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, with four full-page illustrations of which three are Safavid and one is Indian, the colophon signed, in Qajar lacquer binding, the doublures painted with flowers
Text panel 5 x 3in. (12.6 x 7.5cm.); folio 7 5/8 x 4 ½in. (19.5 x 11.5cm.)




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Paul Richard Loewi (1879-1939)
Thence by descent to the current owner
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