Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D.1492), SILSILAT AL-DHAHAB, FROM THE HAFT AWRANG, SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD AL-QAWAM AL-SHIRAZI, PERSIA, SAFAVID, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
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'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D.1492), SILSILAT AL-DHAHAB, FROM THE HAFT AWRANG, SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD AL-QAWAM AL-SHIRAZI, PERSIA, SAFAVID, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on paper, 209 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 12 lines to the page, written in nasta’liq in black ink, text divided into three columns, the external one diagonally, ruled in blue, red, light blue and gold, headings in white against a gold ground within polychrome cartouches, f.1b and 2a with a double-page illumination decorated in gold and polychrome, with seven paintings and two illuminated headings, stamped and gilt binding, filigree doublures, with flap
28 by 19cm.
Ex-collection H.K. Monif, New York, 1940s.
The manuscript contains the following seven paintings:
f.22b: a poet disappointed for being praised only by an ill-mannered man.
f.36b: the story of the man who had hidden in a minaret screaming: 'do not search for me, I am not here’.
f.67a: Majnun releases the deer because of the similarities he saw in him to Layla.
f.98b: the Ghuri listening to the description of the Ka’ba and virtues of the pilgrimage.
f.122b: a father sends his son to Medina and is killed by robbers.
f.157a: the princess falls in love with an Ethiopian, seeing him from her palace.
f.180a: an old woman asking Sanjar for justice.
Bayani records Muhammad al-Qawam al-Shirazi as a Shirazi scribe of sixteenth century and lists his recorded work including a number signed as ‘known as al-Hammami’ dated between 950 AH (1543-44 AD) and 958 AH (1551-52 AD) (M.Bayani, vol.3, pp.814-16).