MUNAJAT OF 'ALI
SIGNED SHAH MAHMUD NISHAPURI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 967/1559-60 AD
MUNAJAT OF 'ALI SIGNED SHAH MAHMUD NISHAPURI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 967/1559-60 AD Persian manuscript in verse on black paper, 6ff., each with 12ll. of elegant nasta'liq in yellow, red, white, and purple divided into staggered panels of alternating large and small text, next to each panel a vertical band of angular gold scrolls with inner green and orange rectangles, beyond these larger panels with gold scrolling arabesques, laid down within a border of cusped cartouches filled with scrolling vine and alternated with gold panels with white four-lobed panels reserved against gold ground on wide outer margins with gold animals and foliage on pale pink ground, illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece, probably added at a later date, colophon signed Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri and dated 967, some folios coming out of their margins, some of the illumination added or retouched, in brown morocco with gold tooled central medallion with red scrolling vine Text panel 7¼ x 4¼in. (18.4 x 10.8cm.); folio 10 3/8 x 6½in. (26.3 x 16.5cm.)
MUNAJAT OF 'ALI
SIGNED SHAH MAHMUD NISHAPURI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 967/1559-60 AD
MUNAJAT OF 'ALI SIGNED SHAH MAHMUD NISHAPURI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 967/1559-60 AD Persian manuscript in verse on black paper, 6ff., each with 12ll. of elegant nasta'liq in yellow, red, white, and purple divided into staggered panels of alternating large and small text, next to each panel a vertical band of angular gold scrolls with inner green and orange rectangles, beyond these larger panels with gold scrolling arabesques, laid down within a border of cusped cartouches filled with scrolling vine and alternated with gold panels with white four-lobed panels reserved against gold ground on wide outer margins with gold animals and foliage on pale pink ground, illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece, probably added at a later date, colophon signed Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri and dated 967, some folios coming out of their margins, some of the illumination added or retouched, in brown morocco with gold tooled central medallion with red scrolling vine Text panel 7¼ x 4¼in. (18.4 x 10.8cm.); folio 10 3/8 x 6½in. (26.3 x 16.5cm.)
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