MUHAMMAD `ASSAR TABRIZI (D. AH 779 / 1377 AD): MIHR O MUSHTARI

Lot 37
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 37 | MUHAMMAD 'ASSAR TABRIZI (D. AH 779 / 1377 AD): MIHR O MUSHTARI
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£ 40 000 – 60 000
MUHAMMAD 'ASSAR TABRIZI (D. AH 779 / 1377 AD): MIHR O MUSHTARI
PROBABLY AQ QOYUNLU SHIRAZ, DATED 5 RAMADAN AH 895 / 23 JULY 1490 AD
A love story in verse based on the concept of platonic love, Persian manuscript on paper, 168ff., each with 15ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with gold, blue and black rules, catchwords, headings in gold nasta'liq within plain panels, with ten fine contemporaneous paintings in opaque pigments heightened with gold, illuminated opening bifolio, colophon dated, with two owner's stamps, in brown morocco binding
Folio 6 ¾ x 3 ¾in. (17.2 x 9.7cm.); text panel 4 ½ x 2 ¼in. (11.5 x 5.7cm.).




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Hermann Frankl, Vienna, sold 1926
Paul Graupe, Berlin, 13-15 April 1926, lot 1304 (illustrated) and thence by descent
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