TWO CALLIGRAPHIC FOLIOS
A PRIVATE COLLECTION DONATED TO BENEFIT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
TWO CALLIGRAPHIC FOLIOS

PROBABLY MUGHAL INDIA, 16TH CENTURY

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TWO CALLIGRAPHIC FOLIOS
PROBABLY MUGHAL INDIA, 16TH CENTURY
A ghazal of Amir Shahi of Sabzevar, Persian manuscript on paper, with 6-9ll. of elegant black nasta'liq divided into two columns with gold intercolumnar rule, both folios decorated with small birds painted on a ground of floral sparys, the text panels laid down between wide polychrome rules on wide peach coloured margin with gold rules
Text panel 4 5/8 x 2½in. (11.3 x 6.5cm.); folio 11 3/8 x 7 3/8in. (29 x 18.6cm.)

拍品专文

The colourful illustrations of birds that adorn these pages are very similar to those found on an album attributed to Muhammad Mu'min and with a library inscription dated AH 1031/1621-22 AD, which sold in these Rooms, 12 October 2004, lot 112.

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