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A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1575 Persian manuscript on paper, with 12ll. of elegant black nasta'liq arranged in two columns, separated by double gold intercolumnar rules, laid down between wide borders decorated with gold floral illumination and set with a series of polychrome cartouches with figural illustrations The larger calligraphic panel 5 1/8 x 2 5/8in. (13 x 6.6cm.); folio 11 x 7 ?in. (28 x 19cm.)
This folio relates to a group of eight which come from two manuscripts of Jami in the Chester Beatty Library (Robinson, 1960, cat.209-210). These include five finely illustrated leaves from a copy of Jami's Salaman wa Absal which has scrolls decorated with various waq-waq motifs including numerous human faces and three leaves from Jami's Subhat al-Abrar, similarly illuminated, but the scrolls are simply decorated with leaves and palmettes – like ours. The figures painted within the marginal medallions show musicians, half-length figures and other seated figures depicted frontally in a very similar way to those visible on our manuscript. Robinson describes them as ‘painted in the simplified form of the metropolitan ‘Qazvin’ style practiced circa 1565-85’ (Robinson, 1960, p.73). Similar examples that have sold at auction include, Christie’s, London, 5 October 2010, lot 227, 26 April 2012, lot 30 and 10 April 2014, lot 3.