Lot 46
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TWO FOLIOS AND A BIFOLIUM FROM ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS OF PERSIAN POETRY, PERSIA, 16TH CENTURY

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

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Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, texts written in nasta'liq script

Provenance

Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1955

Catalogue Note

The three items are as follows:
A: An illuminated folio bearing the final page of the Haft Paykar and the first page of the Sharafnameh in nasta'liq script in black ink with an illuminated headpiece in colours and gold.
B: An illuminated folio with two ghazals of Hafez in nasta'liq written diagonally in black ink on gold-sprinkled cream paper, with two illuminated panels, borders of gold-sprinkled cream paper.
C: An illuminated bifolium from a manuscript of the Yusuf va Zulaykha of Jami, each page with two columns of Persian verses written in nast`liq script with intercolumnar margins of red paper.