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JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (D.1209): KHAMSA

Lot 60
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 428 400
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1306537
Lot 60 | JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (D.1209): KHAMSA
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (D.1209): KHAMSA
WITH PAINTINGS SIGNED SHAYKHI MUDHAHHIB, SAFAVID SHIRAZ, DATED AH 944 / 1537-8 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 349ff., plus two flyleaves, each folio with 21ll. of fine black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, headings in blue nasta'liq within illuminated panels, text panels within gold rules, catchwords, the opening bifolio with two full-page paintings depicting a battue-style hunt within gold and polychrome illuminated borders, 9 further paintings within the manuscript, the second bifolio with double page illumination, gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces for each section within the Khamsa, an additional illuminated headpiece for the Iqbalnama, the final folio and colophon lacking, six further illustrated folios separately mounted for a total of 17 illuminated folios, in contemporary stamped, gilded and painted morocco binding
Text panel 6 7/8 x 4in. (17.5 x 10.2cm.); largest painting 7 5/8 x 4 ¾in. (19.5 x 12cm.); folio 13 ¾in. x 7 7/8in. (35 x 20cm.)




Provenance

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



Literature

Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Persian Miniature Paintings from British Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1951, no.43
Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Edinburgh, 1977, no.195
B.W. Robinson, Painter-Illuminators of Sixteenth-Century Shiraz, Iran XVII, 1979, pp.105
B.W. Robinson, Persian Paintings, London, 1952, no.19
Tom L. Naylor, The Trumpet & Trombone in Graphic Arts 1500-1800, 1979
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