AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAVI (d. AH 725/1324-5 AD): KHAMSA SIGNED ‘ABDULLAH KATIB ISFAHANI, QARA QOYUNLU ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED 17 SAFAR AH 868/ 31 OCTOBER 1463 AD Poetry, Persian manuscript on cream burnished paper, 163ff. plus four flyleaves, 25ll. of elegant black nasta'liq arranged in four columns with double gold divisions, titles in gold naskh , text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, three finely illuminated chapter headings, colophon signed and dated, in 19th century European cream vellum with gold tooling Text panel 8 3/8 x 5 3/8in. (21 x 13.6cm.); folio 13 1/8 x 8 ¾in. (33.4 x 22cm.) Provenance Commissioned by Pir Budaq in the Dar al-Amana (Royal Treasury) of Isfahan, 1463 Philipp Walter Schulz, purchased in Isfahan before 1900 Victor Goloubew, acquired at the Schulz estate auction, in Paris 1914 Private Collection Belgium, by inheritance
AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAVI (d. AH 725/1324-5 AD): KHAMSA SIGNED ‘ABDULLAH KATIB ISFAHANI, QARA QOYUNLU ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED 17 SAFAR AH 868/ 31 OCTOBER 1463 AD Poetry, Persian manuscript on cream burnished paper, 163ff. plus four flyleaves, 25ll. of elegant black nasta'liq arranged in four columns with double gold divisions, titles in gold naskh , text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, three finely illuminated chapter headings, colophon signed and dated, in 19th century European cream vellum with gold tooling Text panel 8 3/8 x 5 3/8in. (21 x 13.6cm.); folio 13 1/8 x 8 ¾in. (33.4 x 22cm.) Provenance Commissioned by Pir Budaq in the Dar al-Amana (Royal Treasury) of Isfahan, 1463 Philipp Walter Schulz, purchased in Isfahan before 1900 Victor Goloubew, acquired at the Schulz estate auction, in Paris 1914 Private Collection Belgium, by inheritance
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