ID 932093
Lot 2 | AN ALBUM PAGE
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 40 000
THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED SHAH MAHMUD NISHAPURI, PROBABLY SAFAVID MASHHAD, DATED RAMADAN AH 971/APRIL-MAY 1564 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, comprising the fatiha in 6ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on gold sprinkled paper, illuminated rectangles in four corners, one with the signature of Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri, within gold-speckled green margins, on a grey field with twelve cartouches each containing a couplet of Persian poetry in black nasta'liq, with blue and polychrome illuminated headpiece, laid down on gold-speckled card
Text panel 13 1/4 x 7 1/2in. (34 x 19.3cm.); folio 18 x 12 1/8in. (47.3 x 30.4cm.)
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia, Persia |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia, Persia |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
| Address of auction |
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