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THE KHAMSAS OF NIZAMI (D.1209) AND AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAVI (D.1325)

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25.04.2024 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 54 | THE KHAMSAS OF NIZAMI (D.1209) AND AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAVI (D.1325)
THE KHAMSAS OF NIZAMI (D.1209) AND AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAVI (D.1325)

COLOPHON SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN DAR AL-MARZI ON THE ORDER OF LUTFALLAH MUZAHHIB (THE ILLUMINATOR) SHIRAZI, SHIRAZ, IRAN, DATED BETWEEN THE LAST DAY DHU’L QA’DA AH 1033 / 14 SEPTEMBER 1624 AD AND 1 DHU’L QA’DA AH 1035 / 15 JULY 1626 AD

Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold speckled paper, 392ff. plus eleven flyleaves, each folio with 20ll. of fine black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, section headings in white thuluth reserved against gold illuminated cartouches set within illuminated panels across the central two columns, set within gold rules, with 44ll. additional set diagonally within the margins, within gold outer rules, catchwords, the opening bifolio with two full-page illustrations depicting a bucolic scene within gold and polychrome illuminated margins, the following page with elaborate illuminated headpiece and illuminated margins, similar illumination for each new section within the khamsa, with 23 full page illustrations often extended into the margins and the text on the opposite folio reserved against gold illumination, each section with a dated colophon, the final bifolio with two full page illustrations of hunting party within gold and polychrome illuminated margins, remargined, in lacquer binding,

Text panel 6 3⁄8 x 3 7⁄8in. (16.3 x 9.8cm.) incl. marginal text; folio 11 ½ x 7 ¼in. (29.3 x 18.3cm.)





Provenance

Eduard Credé, Berlin (1899 -1977)

Thence by descent to his son Herbert Credé, Salem (1930-2022)

Art style:Safavid (1506-1722)
Place of origin:Asia, Persia
Auction house category:Books and manuscripts
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