THREE FOLIOS FROM LAYLA WA MAJNUN

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Lot 55 | THREE FOLIOS FROM LAYLA WA MAJNUN
THREE FOLIOS FROM LAYLA WA MAJNUN

PROBABLY SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1520

Three illustrated folios from the Khamsa of Nizami, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, four columns of black nasta'liq above and below, the reverse with 18ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, two folios with headings in blue naskh against a gold scrolling ground, set within gold and polychrome rules, two folios with margins cropped

Painting 4 1⁄2 x 3 3⁄4in. (11.3 x 9.6cm.); text panel 7 1⁄8 x 4 1⁄4in. (18.2 x 10.8cm.); folio 12 1⁄4 x 7 1⁄2 (31.1 x 19cm.)







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Folio 1, Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1970, lot 240

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