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Two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Jami's Haft Awrang, depicting scenes from Yusuf va Zulaykha North India or Kashmir, late 18th Century(2) image 1
Two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Jami's Haft Awrang, depicting scenes from Yusuf va Zulaykha North India or Kashmir, late 18th Century(2) image 2
Lot 11

Two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Jami's Haft Awrang, depicting scenes from Yusuf va Zulaykha
North India or Kashmir, late 18th Century
(2)

11 June 2020, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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Two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Jami's Haft Awrang, depicting scenes from Yusuf va Zulaykha
North India or Kashmir, late 18th Century

Persian manuscript on paper, text in nasta'liq script in black ink written in two columns, intercolumnar rules in gold, inner margins ruled in gold, black and blue, illustrations in gouache and gold
180 x 110 mm.(2)

Footnotes

Provenance
Joseph Soustiel, Art Musulman: Miniatures orientales de l'Inde, May 1973, nos. 13 and 21.

The scenes depict: Yusuf before his father who prays for him, with an angel appearing above them bearing an emerald staff; and Zulaykha travelling to Egypt with camel-loads of precious goods to see Yusuf.

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