A nasta'liq quatrain, Iran, 19th century or earlier, paper laid on card, four lines of black diagonal script in clouds against a gold ground filled with flowers, the wide margins brightly painted with 19th Qajar illumination with birds and flowers, overall size 32cm. by 20.5cm.; also five pages of calligraphy, on card, each 29.5cm. by 19.5cm. overall size, (6).