ID 1033097
Lot 65 | AN ARABIC GRAMMAR
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
COPIED BY SULTAN 'ALI MASHHADI, SAFAVID HERAT, AFGHANISTAN, DATED AH 923/1517-18 AD
On grammar, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 41ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 9ff. of elegant black nasta'liq, catchwords, important words and phrases picked out in gold or blue, laid down between gold and blue rules, opening headpiece with the bismallah in blue naskh, a few marginal notes at the beginning, colophon signed Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi bi dar al-sultaniyya Herat and dated 923, some waterstaining mainly restricted to the margins, some folios loose in binding, in later purple velvet binding with gilt stamped central medallion and spandrels
Text panel 6½ x 3 3/8in. (16.5 x 8.5cm.); folio 9 5/8 x 6in. (24.5 x 15cm.)
Provenance
Collection of the Late Djafar Ghazi, sold Christie's London, 7th October 2008, lot 331
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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| Place of origin: | Afghanistan, Iran, Asia |
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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| Place of origin: | Afghanistan, Iran, Asia |
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