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A Safavid calligraphic exercise written in nasta'liq script Persia, first half of the 16th century
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A Safavid calligraphic exercise written in nasta'liq script
Persia, first half of the 16th century
Persian manuscript on paper, six lines written diagonally in nasta'liq script in black ink on a gold-sprinkled brown ground within cloud bands, against a gold ground, illuminated corner piece at upper right of text panel, illuminated headpiece in colour and gold, with the name of Mir'Ali at lower left, laid down on a later album page with stylised floral inner borders, coloured inner margins, gold-sprinkled dark blue outer border, album page trimmed, early 19th Century Indian seal impression verso. Album page 25.2cm x 17.7cm
Persian manuscript on paper, six lines written diagonally in nasta'liq script in black ink on a gold-sprinkled brown ground within cloud bands, against a gold ground, illuminated corner piece at upper right of text panel, illuminated headpiece in colour and gold, with the name of Mir'Ali at lower left, laid down on a later album page with stylised floral inner borders, coloured inner margins, gold-sprinkled dark blue outer border, album page trimmed, early 19th Century Indian seal impression verso. Album page 25.2cm x 17.7cm
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private US collection.
The unidentified text consists of Persian verses praising Muhammad, his family and 'Ali.
The seal impression verso is Indian, reading Fakhr al-Din Mir Husayn Khan Bahadur [12]32/AD 1816-17.














