THREE FOLIOS FROM THE HAFT AWRANG

Lot 50
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Lot 50 | THREE FOLIOS FROM THE HAFT AWRANG
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THREE FOLIOS FROM THE HAFT AWRANG

SAFAVID QAZVIN, IRAN, 1544

Three illustrated folios from the Haft Awrang of Jami, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, two columns of black nasta'liq above and below, one with the title heading in red nasta'liq below, within gold and polychrome rules, the reverse with 13 to 17ll. of nasta'liq arranged in two columns written diagonally and horizontally, a heading picked out in red

Largest painting 6 7⁄8 x 4 1⁄8in. (17.3 x 10.5cm.); folio 9 5⁄8 x 5 1⁄2in. (24.5 x 14cm.)







Provenance

Zander Collection, Berlin, before 1914 (as a complete manuscript)

Maggs Bros. Ltd., Bulletin No.1, December 1961, lots 1, 2, and 3





Literature

Ph. Walter Schulz, Die Persicsch-islamische Miniaturmalerei, Leipzig, 1914, vol.II, taf.81.

R. Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Edinburgh, 1977, p.23, no.29, p.72, no.163, and p. 84, no. 192.

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