Arts of the Islamic World

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Lot 22
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Illustrated Leaf from a Persian manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa: Khusrau Spying Shirin Bathing, Turkman, Persia, Circa 1498-99

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

gouache on paper, 9 lines of text in 4 columns of neat nasta'liq script in black ink, reverse with 21 lines of text in 4 columns, double intercolumnar rules in gold, heading in blue nasta'liq against a scrolling foliate motif in gold